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

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

Saying TC-SC is like "color" and "colour" is a naive view of the whole
TC-SC problem.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>
To: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Cc: <kenw@sybase.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: traditional/simplified (Re: [idn] wg milestones update)


> > 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
>
>