[wg-review] Bounced Message from .PH, Joel

["YJ Park" <yjpark@myepark.com>]

Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:09:22 +0800
Subject: Re(2): [wg-review] Re(2): [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of
DNSO by Mr  Park
To: robin@minervan.com
Cc: orobles@nic.mx, pluque@nic.es, yjpark@myepark.com, wg-review@dnso.org,
        cctld-discuss@wwtld.org
From: "joel disini" <jed@email.com.ph>

robin@minervan.com writes:
>I think German should be included as well - if one looks at the
>demographics,
>one will see that Germany is one of the countries leading the technology
>trail
>on the Continent, and has a higher percentage of Internet users and
>businesses
>compared to most other European countries. Germany surely outflanks
>France and
>Spain, I think only the UK might have more Internet users, although a
>higher
>number of Internet companies might be debatable.
>
>Even the at-large representative from Europe is German. German is spoken
>in
>Austria, Germany, South Tyrol (part of Italy), and large parts of
>Switzerland.
>Its the native language of a sizable proportion of Europeans, not just
>Germans.
>
>all the best, Robin

about 7 months ago,  PH considered applying to be the temporary ccTLD
Secretariat.
At that time, we shopped around for translation services, and we actually
had the proposed ccTLD contract translated into French and German. The
cost was around 10c per word. So if we assume that ICANN has about 50
pages being produced in English per month, and we convert this into
french, german, chinese, and spanish, then it will cost roughly US$8000
per month in translation services.  So translation services are definitely
within ICANN's budget.  To make life simple for ICANN, perhaps the ccTLDs
can opt to use part of the cash we contribute  to ICANN to translate
ICANN's documents? (after all, we are the ones best equipped to do this)

Joel Disini
PH

Alternatively, it might be possible that ICANN would prefer that ccTLDs
translate ICANN documents into their native language and use these
translation services as payment for Root Service?


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