Re: [idn] Unicode tagging

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

> > But we also have to understand that domain names are no longer simple
text
> > commands over the internet... it is part of a company's brand and
> > identity... We have the responsibility to let people have the names they
> > really want... If a person decides to have a name that may be easily
> > confused... it is their choice!
>
> that is complete and utter hogwash.  the function of DNS is to provide
> a mapping from  easily-typed, easily-transcribed, and perhaps
> easily-remembered text strings onto information needed to locate Internet
> services.    DNS is specifically not intended as a representation of
> a company's brand name or trademark, and to bend DNS in that way would
> be to make DNS non-functional.

Whether intended or not... it is a reality that people are using domain
names as brand and identity and we should not turn our back on it just
because its a sticky issue.  Whether we like it or not the reality is that
domain names are used as a brand.

>
> Keith

Edmon