At 14:34 21/08/00, Keith Moore wrote:
>> That aside, the proposed workaround is unreasonable in languages where
>> a character without its accent is really different from a character
>> with its accent.
>
>presumably, in those languages, you would not register the different
>spellings of a label (with and without accents) - you would only
>register the correct spelling.
Again, DNS is global, not local. IDNs are not defined such that
anyone **knows** a priori which language a given IDN is using.
>a registry has an intersting policy question if it is faced with
>requests to register two labels in the same zone, which are in
>different languages, when there's a conflict according to the rules
>of one language but not the other.
We need to avoid registry's having to know what language an IDN
is using, avoid the need for such policy decisions, and devise
a global IDN system -- not a localised IDN system. This is needed,
at minimum, for gTLDs, but in practice needed even for ccTLDs
because of the requirement for global interoperability.
Ran
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