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

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

At 12:24 PM +0800 10/29/01, xiang deng wrote:
>On Monday, October 29, 2001 11:30 AM, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>
>>  >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.
>
>Yes, if there is non-technical solution which is really available 
>and applicable.
>why not?

Why not, indeed? No one here is saying that it should not be done. We 
are saying that it should not be mandated in a technical 
specification. There are many types of non-technical specifications 
that would be very useful here. We have been told that the JET group 
is coming out with one Real Soon Now, so that might address the 
problem in a suitable fashion.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium