Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

[Soobok Lee]

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From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team


 > 
> > 4. http://www.stims.or.kr/ ( 19 )
> 
> > If you want to get thousands of more such cases, search 
> > http://kr.dir.yahoo.com/Education/Organizations/
> 
> You got the above example from this listing in kr.dir.yahoo.com.
> But I think my point holds. Just because it is easy to find long
> organization names (in Korean, or Chinese, or Japanese, or
> English or German, for that matter), what makes you think that this
> particular organization would insist on registering a domain name
> with all 19 Hangul syllables (or actually 21 characters, including
> accounting for the two spaces in the name), rather than some
> shorter and easier to use and remember abbreviation, comparable
> to their already existing www.stims.or.kr registration?
> 
 
Unlinke in German and French using Latin characters sets,
In korean (hangul) , Japanese and Chineses, it is not easy to
make leading alphabet acronyms because of its syllabic nature
of those languages.