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Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- To: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- From: "Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:03:56 -0400
- Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Delivery-date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:00:21 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
> > But we also have to understand that domain names are no longer simple
text
> > commands over the internet... it is part of a company's brand and
> > identity... We have the responsibility to let people have the names they
> > really want... If a person decides to have a name that may be easily
> > confused... it is their choice!
>
> that is complete and utter hogwash. the function of DNS is to provide
> a mapping from easily-typed, easily-transcribed, and perhaps
> easily-remembered text strings onto information needed to locate Internet
> services. DNS is specifically not intended as a representation of
> a company's brand name or trademark, and to bend DNS in that way would
> be to make DNS non-functional.
Whether intended or not... it is a reality that people are using domain
names as brand and identity and we should not turn our back on it just
because its a sticky issue. Whether we like it or not the reality is that
domain names are used as a brand.
>
> Keith
Edmon