with regard to the operation of registries, it occurs to me that TC/SC equivalences create a signficant burden on registration - will any registration of a sequence of such characters result in the implicit registration of a potentially large equivalence class of strings made up of substitutions of SC for TC or TC for SC in all possible combinations? What about the matching question? Will a canonical form be required that is in some sense the "generator" of the equivalence class of all variations in TC/SC spellings?
Apologies if the above is overly cryptic. I do not claim to be fully cognizant of all the debate that has occurred on this subject, so perhaps this problem has already been dealt with - assuming the terse description above is sufficiently understandable to describe a known (and solved?) problem. Vint Cerf At 08:52 PM 3/14/2002 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote: >Nobody was ever able to explain to me, anyway, how providing Chinese >domain names in Han characters, but not mapping them between TC and SC, >could possibly cause more damage, conflict, and chaos than forcing the >Chinese to use ASCII, as the current system does.
