Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE label version 0.2

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

Eric,

 If my favorite internet  phone company ever  issue two  internet phone numbers:
   1)   254-5628   ( all latin digits )
   2)   254-5628   (8  is Bengali '4'  )
 for two distinct entities,
 We can say the integrity of the number system is already severely flawed , even
before
 the first  innocent victim takes 2) for 1) and actually makes a dangerous phone
call.

 Uniqueness of identifiers depends partly on human mental distinction between
names.
 For the blind, even the 'a.com' and 'x.com' displayed on the screen , do not
provide
 any clues for mutual distinction.

 DNS contains the core internet identifier system which MUST provide  name
 uniqueness to audiences from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds ,
 while the global network of DNS protocol implementations adds universality .

Soobok

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>; "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine"
<brunner@nic-naa.net>; <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE
label version 0.2


> Soobok,
>
> There is a difference between altering the assocation between a name and an
> address, whether this operation is performed with global or local scope, and
> creating an association beteen a name and another name.
>
> The first is an integrity problem for the DNS, the second is a disambiguation
> problem for something other than the DNS.
>
> Eric
>