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

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

> Incidentally, for those who cannot directly envision the issues for
> trying to match traditional and simplified Chinese domain names, a
> roughly comparable problem would be trying to match "traditional"
> British English spellings and lexical conventions with "simplified"
> American English spellings and lexical conventions, so that, for
> example:
>
>     www.theatre.com  and  www.theater.com
>
> would resolve to the same domain name, to avoid "confusions" among
> users who might be using the "traditional" forms or the "simplified"
> forms of the "same" name. But of course no such matching is attempted
> now for English-based domain names, let alone all Latin-character-based
> domain names

I totally agree with this analogy as I have pointed it out a long time ago
at the Pittsburg IETF. (with a different word: colour vs color)
It is still best left to the policy makers of a registry (or domain admin of
any domain for that matter) to determine trad-simp mapping.

Edmon