Dear All, # This is on behalf of Mr. Yoneya as he is not available now.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:59:53 -0800 Paul Hoffman / IMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your table are great, and they show that the reordering for Japanese > >> names will shorten typical Japanese ACE names by only a tiny fraction. > > > >20% is a tiny fraction? (For all-kanji labels, except the short ones, > >where compression doesn't matter anyway.) > > Yep. If you look at Yoneya-san's chart, you will see that the large > majority of the names are 8 characters or less. In fact, since you > want to narrow it to all-kanji names, the large majority are 4 > characters or less. So, a 20% length reduction means ACE strings that > are about 2 characters shorter for typical all-Kanji Japanese names. > > I truly don't believe that we will see end users typing in ACE names, > but even if you do, is it really easier to type in h4xe90wsie3b than > h4xe90wsie3b5a? This is worth the hair and incompleteness of the > reordering draft? The following are the opinions of those in research of reordering for Japanese JP domain names. - It may have some benefit (max: 25% compression) for all-kanji labels (39% of the total of JP domain names in Japanese). However, the outcome for kanji-kana and kanji-ascii labels which is the rest 61% of the total, would amount to max: 16% compression only. - Within the range of 4 to 5 characters, which is the majority of JP domain names in Japanese, even done in all-kanji labels, the benifit would remain to be only 2-4 octets. Considering the overhead of reordering, we don't think it is the advantage for Japanese Domain Names. --- MIYAYAMA Takayuki ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
