[Chapter-delegates] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic Internet domain

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Gene,

I certainly join you in congratulating Dessi and the team in Bulgaria.

I think that here in the chapters we have a very sepcial opportunity, as a 
community, to test the whole concept that has been advanced now.

In particular I am curious to see what happens the first time that a site 
goes up with a <cyrillc-bg> name and one of us wants to access it without 
a Cyrillic keyboard in an Internet cafe somewhere. And "access" may well 
mean sending email, as much as it might mean opening a Web site.

Ours is a community that can especially help each other to make progress 
in such tests and be of assistance to Dessi an all others with her.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Gene Gaines wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:30:25 -0400
> From: Gene Gaines <gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com>
> To: Dessi Pefeva <dpefeva at isoc.bg>
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Bulgaria moves to register Cyrillic	Intern
>     domain
> 
> I am very pleased to see SAITC (Bulgarian State Agency for Information
> Technologies and Communicatoins), with important support from the Bulgarian
> ISOC chapter, <http://www.daits.government.bg/>take the step of requesting
> registration of a Cyrillic TLD from ICANN. (below)
>
> If "The Internet is for Everyone" then we must provide the means for
> everyone to communicate using their language and their character set.
>
> Congratulation ISOC.bg
>
> Gene Gaines
> VP, DCISOC (Washington DC Area Chapter of ISOC)
> *
> *On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Dessi Pefeva <dpefeva at isoc.bg> wrote:
>
>>  I am happy to announce that the Bulgarian government has shown officially
>> its intent to register the .бг (.bg in Cyrillic) domain. They did it in a
>> letter, sent yesterday to ICANN's President Paul Twomey.
>>
>> This is due also thanks to the efforts of ISOC-Bulgaria. Bulgarian
>> President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of ITC are all
>> members of ISOC. They have talked on a number of times in the past six
>> months with ISOC.bg on these issues.
>>
>> Obviously the conversations have been fruitful. See more information here:
>> http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2360195920080623
>>
>>  And this is the official press-release from the ITC Agency:
>>
>> Bulgaria has requested the registration of a Cyrillic top level domain
>> (TLD) from *ICANN* <http://www.icann.org/>. The letter from the chairman
>> of the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and
>> Communicatoins (*SAITC* <http://www.daits.government.bg/>) Plamen Vatchkov
>> to the president of ICANN Paul Twomey was delivered today, June 23rd,
>> 2008, in Paris via the Bulgarian representative to the Governmental Advisory
>> Committee of ICANN, and was distributed for information only in Geneva where
>> the ITU is headquartered. Thus Bulgaria requested the fast track for
>> implementation of its own Cyrillic IDNs.
>>
>> In the letter to the ICANN President, the SAITC chairman informs the
>> authoritative international organization, dealing with assigned names and
>> numbers, that Bulgaria has decided to register and maintain the country code
>> .бг (bg in Cyrillic)
>>
>> Further in the letter, SAITC chairman informs that the discussion on using
>> Cyrillic domain names was initiated by the President of Bulgaria Georgi
>> Parvanov during the visit of the Russian President Putin and the then
>> vice-prime minister, and now President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev during
>> their visit in January 2008 in Sofia. The question was also discussed during
>> meetings of Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev with the Russian
>> counterparts, as well as during talks between foreign ministers Ivailo
>> Kalfin and Sergei Lavrov. Last week, Russian President Medvedev announced in
>> Moscow, that the issue of Cyrillic domain names is an important one, and on
>> his political agenda.
>>
>> „We believe that the initiative, which we discussed with our Russian
>> friends in the last months, is a clear fact about the importance which
>> Bulgaria has in the world Internet. It is an example not only about the
>> historical meaning of the Cyrillic alphabet in the world arena, but also
>> about the fact that through Bulgaria it became an official alphabet of the
>> European Union. By sending this letter to Dr. Twomey – ICANN's president and
>> my friend, SAITC expresses not only the wish, but the readiness to put the
>> Cyrillic IDNs on the Internet map", says Plamen Vatchkov. „There's nothing
>> more natural than the proposed domain to be the country code, which is
>> already known and accepted in the country itself. Creating domains in
>> scripts, different from the Latin, is the next big step in the development
>> of the Internet, which will allow millions of people who don't use English
>> to have easier access to the Global Net resources".
>>
>> SAITC is organizing a meeting later this year in Sofia, where all
>> countries, using Cyrillic will be invited - Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan,
>> Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and
>> Ukraine. The meeting will be dedicated to discussion about IDNs.
>>
>> for more information:
>> Press Center
>> phone +359-2-9492368
>> "Ekaterina Popova" <epopova at daits.government.bg>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Ms. Dessi Pefeva,
>> Internet Society - Bulgaria*
>>
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