Re: ace leaking (was: Re: [idn] Debunking the ACE myth)

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

this mini-debate about registering multiple domain names is really about 
marketing.  less grandly, it is about convenience for the people you 
communicate with.

an organization will choose whatever set of domain name strings it deems 
helpful for communicating with various audiences.    organizations have 
been doing this a long time and there is nothing really special about 
domain names, in this regard...  as long as we do not impose peculiar 
requirements on them.

So,

At 10:39 AM 7/24/2001, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>  I am not interested in paying some registry and ISP for hosting an extra 
> domain just because
>some people can not type in adiaeresis. I rather expose the ACE and let 
>people fight with it (ugly as it is).

is offset by earlier comments about difficulty in finding the right 
keystrokes for generating the characters, and your own desire for a way to 
type a japanese iDN without having to know how to generate the japanese 
characters.

The point is that domain holders will (and do) pay attention to the 
conveniences of those who must type their domain names.  Those wishing 
maximum ease will choose a range of names.

Just as there is www.ca.gov and www.state.ca.us, there will be (multiple 
domain names in multiple character sets, for the same organization.)

An entirely different matter would be this standards body doing anything 
that required or prevented that choice.

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