At 8:42 PM +0800 10/28/01, =?utf-8?B?dHNlbmdsbUDoqIjntrLkuK3lv4Mu5Lit5aSnLnR3?= wrote: > If an Engineering Requirement is not related to the user's cost >and what are user need that must be a very interest projects.
There is no inherent cost to multiple registrations. All registration cost is assigned by the registry (and, in some models, by the registry's agents, the registrars). A registry can have a policy that "if many names have identical meanings, all those names are registered for the same fee as a single name". It is up to the registry to decide what "identical" and "meanings" is, of course. For every language, there are different guidelines for those two words; it would be good to have some common advice on various languages. > I think many >members in IDN WG of IETF also like to know the detail . Yes, exactly. This discussion has elicited a lot of detail that was unknown to many people before now. > You give me a very >strange impression of IETF. Can someone in IETF can help more ? If you listen to just one person's description of the IETF, you are sure to get a skewed picture. If you listen to many peoples' descriptions, you can weight and combine them yourself. The IETF is an extremely open organization. The mailing lists of all the WGs are freely available. And everyone has an email address at which you can contact them. :-) --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
