> On Jul 20, 2016, at 11:50 AM 7/20/16, Juliusz Chroboczek > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 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?
I think there are some important questions to answer first:
What is the meaning of .home and, precisely, how will names that end in .home
be resolved?
Where and by whom will this label actually be used? What is the research to
back up the answer?
Although many people have given me a answer to the first question, and the
answers often include phrases like "it just means..." or "everybody agrees
that..." or "it's obvious...", I don't think I've seen a citable definition for
the intention and semantics of .home; pointers welcome.
Without that definition, I don't think I know where and by whom the label will
actually be used. Will it turn out to be like .local, which, as far as I know,
is rarely used anywhere and only ever by a certain class of expert user.
- Ralph
>
>> 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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