>> We want something short and memorable. ".co.uk" is short and memorable.
>> ".univ-paris-diderot.fr" is not.
> Why? This is, I suspect, part of the issue: it seems that we have
> some assumptions about the use of these names, and I'm not entirely
> sure what they are. It is not obvious to me that "short and
> memorable" is a requirement that falls out of section 3.7 of RFC 7368.
I suggest we put this question to the WG. Perhaps the chairs would be
willing to ask whether the WG would prefer a name that is short and
memorable, or one that is long and impossible to remember?
> But worse, "home" is actually only memorable for people who know what
> that word is in English,
I seem to always hear this argument from native speakers of English.
I have spent much of the last 20 years working with native speakers of
French and Maghribi Arabic, many of whom have very little English, and we
have never had any issue with remembering short English words without
complex consonant clusters ("for" and even "while" are fine, but "length"
tends to cause problems). My sample is certainly biased, but these are
first year students at a non-elite university (no tuition fees), so they
are probably representative of the public we're aiming for.
> and it's only even useful to people who use Latin characters.
I could be wrong, but I do not believe there exists any country in the
world where literate people are not familiar with the Latin alphabet.
-- Juliusz
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