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

["Chun-Hsin Wu" <wuch@gate.sinica.edu.tw>]

> > 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?

As the comment of James, domain names are identifiers, not names.
I'm sorry to mislead you into this situation in the above analogy.

As you might know, Chinese is an open-set character-based language.
I think the case is not similar to foobar.com and foo-bar.com; it's
more similar to 'A' and 'a', but this 'Aa' analogy still can not precisely
explain the case. I'm sorry I'm not a language expert to descibe this
issue exactly and completely. Hope I won't mislead you once.

Regards,

Chun-Hsin Wu