--On Monday, 07 July, 2008 09:47 -0700 Ted Hardie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 9:25 AM -0700 7/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > However, many concepts in modern Chinese
>> dialects require multiple syllables to express them and
>> therefore multiple characters to write them. So there isn't
Ted,
As Edmond pointed out, the position at present is that:
"Single and two-character U-labels on the top level and second level of a domain
name should not be restricted in general."
I personally expect that for applications made as "IDN ccTLD", whether
"fasttrack" or not, will be reviewed
At 9:25 AM -0700 7/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > However, many concepts in modern Chinese
>dialects require multiple syllables to express them and
>therefore multiple characters to write them. So there isn't
>really a one to one mapping of word, syllable, concept as
>many people suppose.
Whil
> Alphabetic scripts such as Latin mostly represent sounds used
> to make up words. While one can certainly find some
> legitimate single-character words (such as the article "a" or
> the personal pronoun "i")
And lest someone might think that this curiosity of single
character words only app
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> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:33 AM
> To: John C Klensin
> Cc: James Seng; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org; Lyman Chapin
> Subject: Re: Single-letter names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the
> recent ICANN changes?)
>
> john,
>
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oretic reasons to insist on more
information in domain name labels in order to lower the risk of
false positive matches to be fully as "technical" as something
that would have obvious lower-level network consequences.
Others --frankly especially those who see commercial advantage
in getting
o set policy. Even though the mismatches
> would obviously not cause the network to explode or IP to stop
> working, at least some of us consider the informational
> retrieval and information theoretic reasons to insist on more
> information in domain name labels in order to lower the risk
I feel that Edmon's report of the ICANN/GNSO point of view and the
positions of James Seng are shared by most of the groups we relate
with (Internet @large, open roots, ISO lobbies, Multilinc, MINC,
Eurolinc, ISOC France, ccTLDs, etc.). If this WG does not think they
are technically adequate th
--On Friday, 04 July, 2008 15:01 -0400 William Tan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John,
>
> To add to your point, one should also consider the question of
> embedded semantics in a single-character label.
>
> Alphabetic scripts such as Latin mostly represent sounds used
> to make up words. While
ing
that would have obvious lower-level network consequences.
Others --frankly especially those who see commercial advantage
in getting single-letter names-- have argued that this position
is just a policy decision in disguise.
Note that, with slight modifications, the second and third
arguments apply
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