Re: [idn] Intro to my I-D

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

--On Friday, 27 July, 2001 16:03 -0400 ben <ben@cc-www.com>
wrote:

> I have a very small company that offers CDNs (Chinese domain
> names).  My hope is to be able to take the benefits from other
> systems and combine them together to form a supreme.
> (Although I want to emphasize that other systems are 100% fine
> exactly the way they are.)  Combining the following 2 benefits
> together is crucial to my supreme system with both weighting
> EXACTLY THE SAME IMPORTANCE:
> 
> Benefit A-  A simplified CDN points to a website that is
> written in simplified Chinese (GB encoding) for visitors in
> mainland China or Singapore while a traditional CDN points to
>..

Ben (and David and Eric),

It seems to me that a high-level summary of the difficulty here
is that you want to treat Simplified and Traditional Chinese as
different so that you can assign semantics (e.g., different web
sites written respectively in the two forms) to the two writing
styles.  Our CNNIC colleagues believe that Simplified and
Traditional writing forms to express the same word should be
treated as equivalent and mapped into each other.

That is very fundamental; we can't have it both ways in the DNS
(although one can imagine "treat these alike and see what is
found" instructions to a search system).  As I understand what
they have said, mixtures of simplified and traditional systems
within a given phrase are also possible, which eliminates the
simplification you propose of automatically registering "both"
forms.

I agree with David and Eric that you should carefully examine
the Lee and Deng drafts.  But, since there seems to be a more
basic philosophical difference here, I suggest that you try to
work with them to understand each other's positions and see if
some collectively acceptable position can be found.

    john