[wg-review] Bounced Message from .NA

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

To: owner-cctld-discuss@wwtld.org
Cc: robin@minervan.com, orobles@nic.mx, pluque@nic.es, yjpark@myepark.com,
        wg-review@dnso.org, cctld-discuss@wwtld.org, el@lisse.na
Subject: Re: Re(2): [wg-review] Re(2): [cctld-discuss] Comments on review of
DNSO by Mr Park
From: Eberhard W Lisse <el@ac.lisse.na>
Message-Id: <20010117160332.5110460894@ac.lisse.na>

Joel,

first of all I disagree with Ocar, that the multi-language issue is
the cause for the great ICANN divide. That is just not true, in fact
it is the opposite, if we were to do this, we'd get into even more
problems.

It has to do with power, money and influence. Maybe not in this order,
but nothing else. Bill Semich is right, again, that we need to put
these things into plain, simple, and unambiguous English.



Secondly all DNS operators speak English already, or they would not be
able to perate the name servers. Never mind that a large percentage of
the .COM servers are misconfigured, but then the command of English in
the Land of the Fancy Elections has been argued about :-)-O

And if we start considering it where does it stop? First the Krauts
want in, then Namibia asks that domain names must be able to include
the characters \!#/ so that Damara names are possible.


> 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,

Besides the fact that German is my native language this statement is
such UTTER, NAUSEATING nonsense, that I had to medicate myself when
reading it.

>> and has a higher percentage of Internet users and businesses
>> compared to most other European countries.

But, they have all had English in School, and in particular the people
involved in the DNS ALL speak English, without exception.

>> 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.

I fail to the the relevance, of any of the above drivel.

I can't care less if a country has 2 Internet users or 2 Million.

The question is, do the DNS managers speak enough English to realize
that when dealing with the current ICANN they must lay back, close
their eyes and think of England?





el


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