[idn] Re: [JET-member 443] Re: Fw: Re: new members invitation

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 8:42 PM +0800 10/28/01, 
=?utf-8?B?dHNlbmdsbUDoqIjntrLkuK3lv4Mu5Lit5aSnLnR3?= wrote:
>              If an Engineering Requirement is not related to the user's cost
>and what are user need that must be a very interest projects.

There is no inherent cost to multiple registrations. All registration 
cost is assigned by the registry (and, in some models, by the 
registry's agents, the registrars). A registry can have a policy that 
"if many names have identical meanings, all those names are 
registered for the same fee as a single name". It is up to the 
registry to decide what "identical" and "meanings" is, of course. For 
every language, there are different guidelines for those two words; 
it would be good to have some common advice on various languages.

>   I think many
>members in IDN WG of IETF also like to know the detail .

Yes, exactly. This discussion has elicited a lot of detail that was 
unknown to many people before now.

>   You give me a very
>strange impression of IETF.  Can someone in IETF can help more ?

If you listen to just one person's description of the IETF, you are 
sure to get a skewed picture. If you listen to many peoples' 
descriptions, you can weight and combine them yourself. The IETF is 
an extremely open organization. The mailing lists of all the WGs are 
freely available. And everyone has an email address at which you can 
contact them. :-)

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium