Re: [idn] Reordering evaluation result by existing Japanese JP domain names

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

It would be interesting to hear Yoneya-san's views on the benefits to
Japanese users of the 20% improvement. Until we hear from him, let
me offer my own opinion, as an ICANN-accredited registrar whose
principal business is selling Japanese idns in the Verisign testbed.

We have not seen any demand at all for long names, either for ASCII
ones or Japanese ones. Demand for idns themselves is very high,
and our mail server broke down under the unexpected load when
testbed names went on sale last November.

Customer concern about names is on a much more practical level:
when can I use them? Will they work with e-mail, or only for the
web? What application software will work and what will not?

Anyway, I don't see the need for this improvement at all, and I
think our energy should be applied elsewhere.

Bruce

Adam M. Costello wrote: 
> 
> It looks to me like the gain tends to be too small to care much about
> for small scripts (around 10%), but is significant for large scripts
> (20% for Han and maybe 30% for Hangul).  Given that Chinese is spoken by
> about 1/5 of the world's population, I don't think it would be ludicrous
> to include functionality that mostly benefits the large scripts.  (I'm
> not saying I favor it, but I don't think it would be ludicrous.)  Does
> the CJK community think it would be worth the extra complexity?  If they
> don't, then the rest of us can forget about it.  If they do, then we
> have something to think about.
> 
> AMC
> 
>