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

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Huh? I don't recall that measure not passing. I thought it was
English-primary here?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanna Lane [mailto:jo-uk@rcn.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: maria@nns.ru
> Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [wg-review] Re: [cctld-discuss] Multilingulaism in ICANN
> 
> 
> I agree with Ms Stepanova about Russian and would also not 
> exclude German
> and Japanese.
> However, I think we can all agree that ICANN must comply with 
> the Laws of
> California and therefore Spanish needs to be implemented first.
> Joanna
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Maria Stepanova
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 8:04 AM
> To: Pilar Luque
> Subject: [wg-review] Re: [cctld-discuss] Multilingulaism in ICANN
> 
> 
> 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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