Dear Dough,
As several members of the list tried to explain to the group, it is very difficult to ask a user to enter a Chinese domain names exactly in a Unicode input environment. This is because the complexity of getting the exact domain name is exponential in the length of a domain name. In other words, if there are 10 characters with variants in a domain name, then there are at least 1,024 different Unicode strings corresponding to the same name. It is frustrated for users to deal with such a high complexity. Nevertheless, if ITEF does approve an IDN technology which does not solve the variant problem, we believe that there are domain name holders who pays the registries. This is because they want to keep their own name and, furthermore, IETF is a respectful organization. It is going to take a while before they realize that technology is not ready. As for the current system, we have been using it for so many years. It would be excellent if we could live with domain names in our own language. But, it makes no harm even if we have to wait for some time before a reasonable solution is provided. -- Janming Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] �g�J�G > In a message dated 2002-02-11 18:48:00 Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > What happen in the WG will bring damage the > > community. > > I keep seeing this word, "damage." > > Is it really true that providing domain names in Chinese characters, but > requiring users to enter them exactly as presented (without TC/SC > equivalencing), would be more damaging to the Chinese user community than the > current system, which provides no support at all for Chinese characters? > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California > (address will soon change to dewell at adelphia dot net)
