Re: IETF Internationalised Domain Name mailing list: callingfor more Asia voices

[tinwee@pobox.org.sg]

Indeed!
As a suggestion, 
I would like to encourage Professor Kalyan from Switzerland, who is
a native Tamil speaker to participate in the idn list.
he is intimately familiar with Indic scripts, in particular, the
ancient language, Tamil. His contribution and comments will be 
valuable to our discussions.

bestrgds

tin wee


Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> 
> It is good to hear that there will be more Asian participation in the
> discussions, even if it is not at the same pace as we are going now. The
> more committed and involved participants, the better. I believe that we are
> trying to go a tad faster than some IETF work partially because we have
> heard of the strong desire from Asia for non-Western domain names.
> 
> At 11:17 AM 1/29/00 +0800, tinwee@pobox.org.sg wrote:
> >However, there doesn't seem to be too many Asian
> >voices in this mailing list.
> 
> Please don't judge the voices by the spelling of their names or of the
> quietness of their voices. :-) There are a number of people on this list,
> both vocal and quiet, who are fluent in Asian languages and have spent
> years studying the i18n issues of them. (No, I am not one of them...) It is
> good to have more, of course!
> 
> A concern of mine is that I believe we do not yet have as much
> representation of people intimately familiar with Arabic and Indic scripts.
> These scripts tend to have more complicated writing issues that the Asian
> scripts, and they share with the Asian scripts the important property of
> being written by well over a billion people. I know some of the so-far
> silent readers of the list are familiar with the scripts, but I don't know
> how many (if any) are first-hand speakers.
> 
> >Recently, at a Beijing meeting, key Internet "elders" in the Asia Pacific,
> >have concluded that to promote such discussions among the various Asian
> >peoples, we have to allow them to use their own language in the preliminary
> >stage at least, before requesting them to consolidate their responses
> >and translate into English, and vice versa.
> 
> This is wonderful. Please do let this list know of how those discussions
> are taking place so that those already here who can participate can listen
> and contribute.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium