On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:50:05AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > 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 the questions that Suz and Ralph have already posted are ones that must be answered first. But … > 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. First year students in what, pray tell? For I note that anyone who works with any regularity on anything like computer code needs to have some facility with Latin characters. There was a presentation in the HRPC RG in Buenos Aires claiming that this was a serious problem that needed to be addressed. I don't know that I agree, but it is a significant difference between those who work with code and those who merely want to be able to use their computers and networks. > 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. "Familiar with the Latin alphabet" is hardly the point. If your writing system goes right to left, for instance, then plopping left to right text into it is at least a pain in the neck and at worst a significant source of bugs and security problems. If I normally write in Arabic, and use domain names that have U-labels in Arabic, then suddenly running into a label "home" is going to make a mess. Internationalization isn't hard because people doing it are morons. It's hard in part because protocol elements that leak into user interfaces haul in a whole bunch of UI considerations that the IETF is traditionally very bad at. Best regards. -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
