RE: [idn] An ignorant question about TC<-> SC

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chun-Hsin Wu [mailto:wuch@gate.sinica.edu.tw]
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:34 PM
> 
> 
> For full-name DNS, White House may need to register at least
> three records:
>     "America"."USA"
>     "United States"."USA"
>     "USA"."USA"
> If they forget to register "United States of America"."USA",
> some other one may register it validly. This may imply that
> every IDN customer must know and register all combinations
> of the domain name he wants to register.

This situation isn't unique to IDNs.  I can register foobar.com, and someone
else can register foo-bar.com if I don't.  I have to make a conscious
decision to register the name forms that are important to me.  Why should
IDNs be treated differently?

-Scott-