[At-Large] [listegenerale] A-label definition

[JFC Morfin]

To follow on Frank's remarks calling for clear definitions for the 
words we use at the IETF/WGIDNABIS.

We (france at large and related entities and experts as well as Members 
from the French Internet Governance) have identified a difficult (and 
politically sensible) translation problem of the Internet terms into French.

This shows us that many terms that we commonly intuitively understand 
may not reasonably understood well in an other language (French is 
certainly one of the most difficult semantic filter for external 
pragmatics). Relations with other languages of Members of the 
involved entities (European languages, Arabic, African languages) 
make us understand that the most difficult part of the IDNA/ML-DNS 
issue is the user-guide and contract languistic interintelligibility. 
To interthink may be more difficult than to internet.

We are therefore considering an Internet terminology project 
(ITP/TPI) everyone would be welcomed to participate into. It would 
articulated as follows:

1. to make a list of the Internet related words (technical and 
governance) and we would like some help from the IETF side to be sure 
we collect the largest number of terms, starting wih the very IDNA 
words, with their English definition.
2. to translate that list in French to come back with a Anglo/French 
glossary and all the definition clarifications we need/can propose.
3. to engage into a mutual relation with experts from every ISO 3166 
listed scripts and languages in order to provide an Internet Ontology 
with reference links embeded and copnceptual, political, technical, 
managerial, and user oriented notes and comments.
4. to require Multilinc geocultural semantic addressing registry 
projects to contribute with their own language definition (corsican, 
breton, welsh, etc.)
5. as a common reference we plan to organise (based upon a wiki work 
through http://wikidna.org) a maintained unique document built after 
the existing and future RFCs (for the IDNA part) about the technical 
architecture, logic, formats, operations, databases, etc. supporting 
the Multilingual Internet. For compatibility with IETF and other 
works we would like this document to be at least bi-lingual.

We will discuss this project more in detail during our france at large 
July 3rd quick-off meeting (hosting, leaders, methodology, support, 
etc.). The same as for the IGF process, we would certainly like that 
Internet based/related effort to serve as a practical example of 
intergovernance support that could be copied in other areas.

Comments and help welcome.
jfc


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