On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:42, Adam M. Costello wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > According the drafts, my school should register 8 domain names to let > > user to access my school without worrying if he or she keys in right > > character. > > > > and under each domain, we have to create 4 sub-domains for my > > institite > > > > and under each of 8*4=32 sub-domains, create 4 records for a web > > server > > > > And finally, i have to set all 8*4*4=128 domain names at the > > configuration files... > > I don't think any of the drafts recommend this. In fact, I think there > are plans to add language to the IDNA draft warning registrars about the > pitfalls of registering any and all names without any policies. > > For example, although there may be 8 different ways to represent > your school name, there are probably only two ways that are most > common/convenient (call them X and Y), and the other six ways are much > less common/convenient. Suppose the registrar prohibited anyone from > registering those six ways? >
It may not be realistic to expect registrars to do this. (Would each registrar have to check for the existence of a domain 'variation' every time someone wants to register a name?) If this prohibition is to occur would it be better achived at the registry level? Dan Ebert. > Furthermore, while there may be 4 ways to represent your institute, > there is probably one of them that is most common/convenient when used > with X, and one of them that is most common/convenient when used with Y. > And so on, for the remaining labels. > > If the registrars imposed sensible prohibitions, your 128 names could > be reduced down to 2. The other 126 would be prohibited by the > registrars, so you wouldn't need to worry about getting spoofed. Users > who accidentally type one of the non-existent 126 ways might get a > host-not-found error, but that should be fairly rare (because those 126 > ways were deliberately chosen to be the less common/convenient ways), > and enhanced application software that knows some of the registrars' > policies could auto-generate suggestions for other names more likely to > be in the DNS. > > AMC >
