Re: [idn] call for comments for REORDERING

[DougEwell2@cs.com]

In a message dated 2001-10-18 21:33:55 Pacific Daylight Time, 
lsb@postel.co.kr writes:

>  1) saturations in TLD namespaces would require longer names for which
>      REORDERING is designed to give greater benefits/compression ratio.

Is it not the case that logographic/ideographic writing systems such as Han 
and the syllable-oriented Unicode encoding of Hangul, with their large 
numbers of characters, convey more information per character than alphabetic 
scripts?  How long, conceptually, does a domain name really need to be?

I would probably have a warmer spot in my heart for these script-specific 
compression proposals if I were convinced that the users of Han and Hangul 
were somehow being cheated by not being able to register the equivalent of 
"FourthDistrictCentralProvincialLibraryBoardOfDirectors.org" as a domain name.

>      2.0) the character frequency table are constructed from
>           Verisign GRS' ML.com testbeds.
>           Even for chinese han script, their
>            registrations came from China/TAIWAN/JAPAN/KOREA and other
>             non-asian squatters.

I know that Soobok is not specifically listing this as a goal, but I thought 
efforts to accommodate the 15-character-and-longer Han domain names that have 
already been registered was explicitly a non-goal, since those businesses and 
individuals were supposed to have waited until an IDN solution was in place.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California