[wg-review] Re: [cctld-discuss] Multilingulaism in ICANN

["Maria Stepanova" <maria@nns.ru>]

Dear colleagues,

> Daer all,
> 
> 
> 
> After MR BURTON'S petition, and at Mr STUBBS' insistance on 18/01/01,
> please find enclosed resume of discussion on Multilingualism as
> promised:
> 
> 1.You cannot ask non-native English speakers for all of the
> following:
>     - be as fast as native English speakers to understand
>       all subtle issues in ICANN process
>     - be as comfortable as as native English speakers in the anglo-saxon
>       way of doing, with all procedures, term of references, etc,
>       all what is inherent to this cluture they do not dominate
>     - be equally skilled on all legal matters of common law
>     - compete with native English speakers companies for new gTLD
>     - pay for ICANN, either directly, or indirectly
>     - and volunteer on their spare time to translate ICANN system
>       and documents into local languages
> There is an abismal difference betwen UNDERSTAND english texts and
> DISCUSS in public in English...
> 
> 
> 2.  ICANN IMPORTANT documents (SPECIALLY THOSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT) need
> to be translated at least into Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish,
> German and French so that representation is fair and participation is

If we look at United Nations as an example we could find the
following languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish.
I have nothing against Japanese and German but absence of Russian
seems to me not very good idea.


> higher.  It is INCONCEIVABLE that any organization representing or
> claiming to be
> world wide would not have several languages available.  To do otherwise
> is cultural imperialism.
> 
> 3. The ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO has already taken steps towards
> Multilingualism by volunteer translators.  It would be a way to start
> which would solve the problem of overburden of translations.  The whole
> of the DNSO should follow such example so that the ICANN Board can be
> influenced towards such a move.
> 
> 4.  The U.N. Nations approach towards Multilingualism should be one of
> the basic aims of the ICANN process.
> 
> 5.  English-mother tongue speakers should make the effort when
> expressing themselves in meeetings or dicussions lists to use plain
> English.
> 
> 6.  A research into software transaltions products for discusiion list
> should be done.
> 
> 
> 
> 7.  An effort should be made to train ICANN participants into a better
> knowledge of the basic ICANN technical jargon.
> 
> 8. Multilingualism should be a point to be considered in the new Names
> Council Budget and Names Council Business Plan.
> 
> THEREFORE IT SHOULD BE DECIDED:
> 
> 1. BUSINESS PLAN FOR SLOWLY INTRODUCING MULTILINGUALISM IN THE WHOLE OF
> THE ICANN PROCESS
> 2. STUDY OF THE BUDGET REQUIRED
> 3. WHICH LANGUAGES SHOULD BE INTRODUCED
> 
> 
> Comments please.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Pilar LUQUE (ES-NIC)
> --
> ccTLD Constituency of the DNSO
> Discussion Mailing list


Maria Stepanova,
.RU


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