RE: [idn] A question...

["Jonathan Rosenne" <rosenne@qsm.co.il>]

How about the telephone?

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org] 
> On Behalf Of DougEwell2@cs.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 8:07 AM
> To: idn@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: rosenne@qsm.co.il; jseng@pobox.org.sg; jw-lin@yahoo.com.tw
> Subject: Re: [idn] A question...
> 
> 
> In a message dated 2002-02-08 12:15:08 Pacific Standard Time, 
> rosenne@qsm.co.il writes:
> 
> >>> VERBATIM means "word for word". LITERATIM is "letter by letter". 
> >>> This
> >>> is precisely the essence of the problem - you hear a 
> domain name, and 
> >>> spell it exactly as you hear it, and it should be found.
> >>
> >> www.color.com and www.colour.com are not ever going to match.
> >
> > So we don't mean VERBATIM.
> 
> Right, OK, I made a mistake.  So let's try again and see if I 
> can avoid 
> obscuring the point this time:
> 
> "The same, exact thing will happen with Han logographs.  If # 
> and & are TC 
> and SC characters (respectively) that have the same meaning, 
> and the user 
> types # when he should have typed & (or vice versa), under 
> the proposed IDN 
> system the name will not match.  The user will get a 404, mutter "aw, 
> shucks," and type it again, LITERATIM, and the page will 
> appear.  And the 
> user will learn that it is important to type the EXACT 
> characters that appear 
> on the business card, or billboard, or wherever the name came from."
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  (address will soon change to dewell at adelphia dot net)
> 
> 
>