Dear Paul, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote�G
> The message from CDNC says that the Traditional-Simplified problem > for Chinese users cannot be solved by registration policy. This is > not true, and many of the CDNC members who have come to IETF meetings > know that. Interesting question. As we could also noticed, functions of nameprep, mapping, prohibit, and normalization can all be performed by registration policy. So, what's the point of asking this question? Anyway, from our point of view, nameprep mechanism helps to make sure that all international registries follow a global set of rules and it becomes the core set of registration policy. Since the WG insists on a client solution based on Unicode, without on such technical solution, we have no way to depend on the courtesy of internationalized companies to make registration policies being friendly to language communities including Chinese who will be most seriously damaged by the decision of the WG. It would be a pity if we could not prevent greedy business from dumping defective domain name products into Chinese community. We definitely are positive for your efforts in bring up a solution that solves DN problem for many languages. But, please do not force the Chinese community to be the victim of the side-effect. > Of course, CDNC members would like to maximize their > financial gain in registration, but the concern of the IETF is always > towards helping users. There is a huge different between "cannot be > solved" and "it will cost a small number of organizations a lot of > money". This is also interesting. As far as I know, TWNIC has their social responsibily in our country. There major concern for TWNIC to work with IDN WG is consumer protection. The reason why they work on TC/SC, is that we all aware the lack of an international standard on Han variants which we could use to convince the WG to pay attention. Thus TC/SC becomes the best hope because it's something exists for more than 50 years. If the working group could adopt it, then at least this is something for all registries to restrict their name space a little bit and not too make too much trouble to Chinese community. It's a very humble wish, but unfortunately, was rejected by the WG. On the other hand, I can assure you that there is no way for TWNIC to make a registration policy without taking the maximum set of Han variants into account. As a non-profit organization, consumer protection is beyond the goal of making a big profit. Furthermore, dometistic consumer protection groups will not allow that to happen either. I am going back to my family in another city for Chinese New Year now. I'll respond to the rest of your questions as soon as possible. By the way, I have trouble sending a message with a long list of recipients. Could you cut your list shorter please? I guess most people on your list is already on IDN list. Thanks, -- Janming Ho, PhD Deputy Director Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica
