Re: traditional/simplified (Re: [idn] wg milestones update)

[deng@pier.cnnic.net.cn (deng)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: <sun@cnnic.net.cn>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: traditional/simplified (Re: [idn] wg milestones update)


> At 10:25 29.04.2001 +0800, Sun Guonian wrote:
> >[30] Within a single zone, the zone manager MUST be able to define
> >equivalence rules that suit the purpose of the zone, such as, but not
> >limited to, and not necessarily, non-ASCII case folding, Unicode
> >normalizations (if Unicode is chosen), Cyrillic/Greek/Latin folding, or
> >traditional/simplified Chinese equivalence. Such defined equivalences
> >MUST NOT remove equivalences that are assumed by (old or
> >local-rule-ignorant) caches.
> >...
> >==============================
> >I think the traditional/simplified Chinese equivalence SHOULD be defined
> >as a single rule anywhere so that we can make user use IDN, or chinese
> >part in IDN, without confusion.
> 
> If it was possible to write down this equivalence rule on a single sheet of 
> paper (without the codepoints), I would agree. 
> Unfortunately not even the definitions of the different classes of 
> traditional/simplified Chinese equivalence seems to fit on a single sheet 
> of paper (the 1-n, n-1 and contextual mappings in particular).

    We are preparing a draft about traditional/simplified Chinese equivalence.

> 
> A complex specification is prone to implementation errors, especially when 
> there are large markets (US, Western Europe) where a sloppy implementation 
> will not be challenged by real-life usage of the functionality.

    Agree. As a part of DNS, any functions must be precision.The largest users of Chinese 
domain name is in China, we must be responsible for our users. If it's unfortunate that the 
fact tall us that there a wall before us, we'll be responsible for work. But now ,we find 
a road,so we have to go along the road and maybe the light will be brilliant on the end of
the road. 
 
your regards
Deng Xiang