Adam, Le 30/05/2010 14:29, Adam Peake a écrit :
Interesting thread on the civil society Internet governance list about Bulgaria's requerst for a fast track ccTLD being refused. Apparently .бг was considered likely to cause confusion with .br (Brazil.) See the archive at <http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/arc/governance/2010-05/msg00143.html>
Can anyone from ISOC Bulgaria comment?
I don't really understand, on a lot of levels.
I've been following this discussion too - and noticed the usual suspects re: IDNA coming into the debate. Whilst most of the people immediately linked to .bg (including Daniel Kalchev) have voiced their opision, I am awaiting a note from Veni Markovski on this. The issue of visual confusion is a really tough one to rule on. This is why Alan and I had fought hard to *avoid* visual confusion (and phonetic confusion too!) to be part of the Trademark Clearinghouse etc. As for IDNs - this issue is likely to be commonplace. One thing I always remember is that no matter what we all think of re: avoiding visual similarity, there's always going to be someone who will find a loophole, or a way to get around it. It already exists within ASCII. l vs 1 vs I etc. Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html