Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team

[Yoshiro YONEYA <yone@po.ntts.co.jp>]

Hi,

From: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>
Subject: Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:15:54 -0700 (PDT)

> > 1. JPNIC (the registry of .jp domain)
> > JPNIC's official name consists of 25 characters.  Most of the characters
> > are phonograms (Katakana), though.

> 25 characters long, and would probably be too long for most of the
> other ACE's, too, right?

Yes.

> > 2. A helth-insurance organization in Tokyo
> > This name also contains a few phonograms, but most are ideograms.

> Tookyooto joohoo saabisu sangyoo kenkoo hooken kumiai

Good! Only one correction: s/hooken/hoken/ :-)

> There is, of course, some question whether organizations with such
> long names would be looking to register the complete name as an IDN,
> in any case. I don't know about this particular one, of course, but
> many organizations with very long official names regularly abbreviate
> them for internal and external use, simply because an expression like
> "Tookyooto joohoo saabisu sangyoo kenkoo hooken kumiai" is too much of
> a mouthful for practical use, anyway. 

Domain name registrant can have more than one domain names under many
TLDs.  For many reasons, many organizations have more than one domain
names in "short good" names and "exact" name.  I wrote following in
previous mail:

: From: Yoshiro YONEYA <yone@po.ntts.co.jp>
: Subject: Re: [idn] Report from the ACE design team
: Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:42:13 +0900 (JST)
: 
: From my observation, many of long name organizations seem to register
: both "exact" name and "shorter" name.  I agree that shorter domain
: names are useful for end users.  While, I think it is also important
: for IDN to maximize possibility of representing organization's exact
: name.  The difficulty of remembering would depend on how much the name
: is popular.

> Tokyo_City_Information_Service_Industrial_Health_Insurance_Association.jp
> 
> would be 70 characters long and too long for a domain name, too!

But not too long in Japanese :-)

-- 
Yoshiro YONEYA <yone@po.ntts.co.jp>
           aka <yone@nic.ad.jp>