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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>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>
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>
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>
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. <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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
fragile geopolitical world.<br>
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My two cents</p>
<p>Dusan <br>
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