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

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 01-10-28 19.30 -0800 "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org> 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.

Paul is completely correct. The important thing is to have one well-defined
set of rules for "equality". Given these rules, three things can happen:

  - A registry can create well-defined rules for what can be requested
    to be registered
  - A registry can create well-defined rules for what goes into the
    DNS zonefile given a registration request
  - The dispute resolution process for a specific domain can define
    their rules, and come up with their own practice for decision making

What is NOT acceptable is to have rules which doesn't settle down, changes
all the time etc.

Just like Paul I see too many players trying to come up with engineering
solutions to real world problems which have to do with "matching of words"
and not "matching of identifiers" which DNS is about.

      paf