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["jw-lin" <jw-lin@yahoo.com.tw>]

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Subject: Re: [idn] A question...
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:47:24 +0800
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Dear Adam:

The world will go in another direction....i think...

Please see the story below. (I've mentioned this to James Seng  in my
reply)

By doing so, i can image that:
The phone in office of the computer center at my school will ring all of
the days, and never stop. The administrators should reply for the
complain
from students, and make reports to the managers who are complained
by professors. And one day, at the meeting for school affair, the
principal
will take care of these complains. He may ask how much does it
cost to register all possible names. And maybe my school is rich, and
doesn't care about money. The principal say "pay it, and register all."
Of course, he won't ask how complicated things are. Because it is the
work of the administrators:-(
And finally, the administrators must register all 128 names, and
configure
these 128 names on each server which will check the "domain name" of
the requests.

You are trying to change the feeling to Chinese characters for Chinese.
I don't think it works. The result is all administrators register all
possible
names if they have enough money, and configure their servers well.
If not, apologize and explain to their customers.

Maybe it is a way to keep all administrators of Chinese domain names
busy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] A question...


> jw-lin@yahoo.com.tw wrote:
>
> > According the drafts, my school should register 8 domain names to
let
> > user to access my school without worrying if he or she keys in right
> > character.
> >
> > and under each domain, we have to create 4 sub-domains for my
> > institite
> >
> > and under each of 8*4=32 sub-domains, create 4 records for a web
> > server
> >
> > And finally, i have to set all 8*4*4=128 domain names at the
> > configuration files...
>
> I don't think any of the drafts recommend this.  In fact, I think
there
> are plans to add language to the IDNA draft warning registrars about
the
> pitfalls of registering any and all names without any policies.
>
> For example, although there may be 8 different ways to represent
> your school name, there are probably only two ways that are most
> common/convenient (call them X and Y), and the other six ways are much
> less common/convenient.  Suppose the registrar prohibited anyone from
> registering those six ways?
>
> Furthermore, while there may be 4 ways to represent your institute,
> there is probably one of them that is most common/convenient when used
> with X, and one of them that is most common/convenient when used with
Y.
> And so on, for the remaining labels.
>
> If the registrars imposed sensible prohibitions, your 128 names could
> be reduced down to 2.  The other 126 would be prohibited by the
> registrars, so you wouldn't need to worry about getting spoofed.
Users
> who accidentally type one of the non-existent 126 ways might get a
> host-not-found error, but that should be fairly rare (because those
126
> ways were deliberately chosen to be the less common/convenient ways),
> and enhanced application software that knows some of the registrars'
> policies could auto-generate suggestions for other names more likely
to
> be in the DNS.
>
> AMC
>
>


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