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<div class="">In an ideal world public statements regarding UA should be done after consultation with the group, and not at random. Moreover, the more important the audience, the more carefully must the statement be crafted.</div>
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<div class="">On 13.09.2023, at 12:12, Dusan Stojicevic via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org" class="">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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This Ajay's "big news" makes me a little bit sad and a bit worried. If the question was quoted by Ajay how it was posted on that summit, we have many levels of understanding issues in UASG.<br class="">
1. question is framed in a manner that someone forbids using other languages in the domain names. With that info, served to the politicians, who are by design unaware of standards and technology, you created a picture that ICANN or at least some Internet body
force us to use English. We can argue that it was a valid statement 15 years ago, but now it is completely wrong.<br class="">
2. there is no 25 percent who speaks English, there is less than that. You can check here -<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://myclasstracks.com/how-many-people-speak-english/">https://myclasstracks.com/how-many-people-speak-english/</a>. Still,
this creates false impression that some minority language is forced by ICANN or any Internet body to be used, because we don't expect the politicians to know the history on Internet. Internet was created in the USA, on English language and Latin script, and
existed many years before IDNs are introduced and that's why we have Latin script.<br class="">
3. Using "English language" in the question, instead of "Latin script" (which is used the most in the world -<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/">https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/</a>) again is
targeting political battle between East and West. Do we need to be in that battle, as UASG? Ironically, I presume that this question was asked on English language... Using language instead of script is factually wrong from UASG point of view. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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Together, those 3 wrong things in the question creates a dumb image to politicians that English language is forced by the West, through ICANN, which is just a political statement for the sake of West/East battle. And very hard one now in today's geopolitical
situation. I would argue that we DON'T need such political statements while we are tending to be apolitical in UASG.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
At least, this big news are leading us into wrong direction, and Anil's answer of 5 years of devoted work on this makes me more worried. This question is not something that I would like to be the message of UASG/ICANN and I would be extra careful in today's
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