conflicts and chaos Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:59:02 +0800 Message-ID: <000001c1af37$f59884c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Thread-Index: AcGvN/WY/WNAgmvTTFSxkhNnz2j0KA== Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk
[Note: there is a series of emails with the exact same content originated from iis.sinica.edu.tw. I will continue to bounce it to the list until someone ask me to stop - JS] I=A1=A6ve recently come to know that IETF is about to release drafts on = IDN standards, and to my regret, I found that the document does not = solve problems for Chinese domain names. And this defect in your drafts = will result conflicts and chaos for Internet users of Han characters, = namely Chinese, Korean and Japanese, and the effect is international = because users of these languages are all over the world. It is important to know that while a certain character can have = different appearance in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese = Character forms even though they are actually same words with the same = meaning; at the same time, a certain character which might look exactly = the same, but in fact are two different words with different meaning = when applied to different languages such as Chinese and Japanese. I = believe that IETF bears great responsible in setting standards which = will bring order to the Internet world, and any document which might = cause disorder, should be carefully reconsidered before release. = Therefore, Before IETF can resolve this problem and identify one = mechanism which can differentiate these delicate language difference, = IETF should not pass the document which would apply Unicode for IDN = resolution, because this irresponsible decision is going to cause = conflicts and chaos in DN registration policy and DRP worldwide. Chien-Ming Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC
