Prof Tseng, I do not see what so strange about my comment. IETF is an engineering group so we deal with technical issues. Political, economy and business issues are really out not our concern.
But cc: IDN WG at this moment without relevant discussion which taken place in JET mailing list is confusing to other so let me pull a piece of our discussion: Deng Xiang comment that TC-SC that: "Because IDN should be global protocol and will force all Chinese users to register all form TC/SC domain name and pay unlimited money and face unlimited domain name disputation. Do you still think it's the local issue? Yes. all over the world. If you want earn money from Chinese people." I responded that "While I sympathis with this argument, unfortunately, IETF usually do not consider non-technical issues relevant. This is considered Layer 9 aka "political" issues from IETF perspective." (Lee then corrected me that this is a "economy" issues, not "political") and also "We dont ask how much CNNIC charges per name, nor we care what Verisign charges to their registrar. neither do we can how much Entrust or Baltimore charges per certificate nor do we regulate how much hosting companies going to charge to their customer. None of these cost is a concern to IETF. We leave these to market force to play it. That is the nature of the free-market forces." -James Seng > > > TC/SC tables are just less than 10K, while NFKC/Legacy/Font > > requirements > > > is much higher. implementation complexity is for engineers. > > > but, deployment costs are transferred to innocent end users. > > > > I am not going to argue for or against TC/SC here. I am stuck in the > > middle myself, torn between been a Chinese and been a co-chair for IDN. > > > > But the arguments for inclusive of TC/SC or not should be done on a pure > > technical evaluation basis in IETF. Economy arguments as above is not a > > factor for consideration. > > > > This is why it is known as engineering trade off, not economy trade off. > > > > -James Seng > > > James: > Let us to know what is pure technical evaluation basis in your > mind as you are a co-chair in an IETF working group. > If an Engineering Requirement is not related to the user's cost > and what are user need that must be a very interest projects. I think many > members in IDN WG of IETF also like to know the detail . You give me a very > strange impression of IETF. Can someone in IETF can help more ? > > L.M.Tseng >
