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

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

At 10:36 AM +0800 10/29/01, xiang deng wrote:
>On Sunday, October 28, 2001 11:27 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:
>
>>  > > Do you have any statistic on how many mixed TC/SC registration have
>>  been
>>  > > done so far?
>>  >
>>  >If there just has 1% or 0.1% , do you mean we can ignore it?
>>
>>  It could be that we can ignore it, or that we can look for
>>  lightweight solutions.
>
>If A company register a SC-domain-name, and has a websit about it.
>if B company is the challenger of A, he register a mixed TC/SC domain
>name, and publish its websit.
>
>Do you think this kind of cases will be minority?

Yes, and it happens all the time with the current ASCII-only names. 
The traditional-simplified mappings will cause more of the same thing 
we see now.

>The A company must face the disputation.But there will be
>so many variant domain names, A company will be tired to
>deal with it, Where is the intelligent property of domain name?
>Whoes wrong?

No one. That's the point. There is no technical means for determining 
all of the names that are similar for a particular audience. There 
are certainly non-technical human means for determining those names, 
and we currently use non-technical human means for dealing with the 
problems.

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