Hi Patrik, Unfortunately, I am not as technically knowledgable as you are so I rather not comment on what you have wrote. However, what I am certain is that you have illustrated the fact that applications/clients/users/servers/etc can be made to take advantage of this explicit labeling of what "script" an IDN is in and over time (with people writing appropriate applications) can be developed into a very powerful and useful system. (Unlike TLD such as ".gov", ".ca" which serves next to no purpose from an IDN's perspective.)
Thanks, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrik F�ltstr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC > --On 2001-10-26 12.48 -0400 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for pointing out the confusion. Perhaps just the word "script" > > is better. To clarify what I mean, it is to label a Chinese domain > > name as <idn>.<traditional> or <idn>.<simplified> (and not > > <idn>.<chinese> as this serves no purpose) inorder to take out the > > guess work for the CDN users. > > This implies that the DNS server need to know how to do matchings between > different charsets (I switch term), for example between BIG5 and some > version of GB, or between ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-11. Given some 1000 > charsets, the server need to have huge equivalence tables, because in DNS, > we only do exact matchings. > > Instead of asking the server to do all of this work, one can force the > client to translate the local charset to one and only one. The server then > only need to know how to match within that charset. And, the client only > need to know how to map from the local charset to the unified one. > > We then took one more step and asked the clients to also do normalisation, > so the servers can do matchings based on direct comparison on the bits > which is the representation of the domain name itself. > > paf > > >
