Re: [idn] UTC feedback

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

At 14:34 21/08/00, Keith Moore wrote:
>> That aside, the proposed workaround is unreasonable in languages where
>> a character without its accent is really different from a character
>> with its accent. 
>
>presumably, in those languages, you would not register the different 
>spellings of a label (with and without accents) - you would only 
>register the correct spelling.

Again, DNS is global, not local. IDNs are not defined such that 
anyone **knows** a priori which language a given IDN is using.  

>a registry has an intersting policy question if it is faced with 
>requests to register two labels in the same zone, which are in
>different languages, when there's a conflict according to the rules 
>of one language but not the other.  

We need to avoid registry's having to know what language an IDN
is using, avoid the need for such policy decisions, and devise
a global IDN system -- not a localised IDN system.  This is needed, 
at minimum, for gTLDs, but in practice needed even for ccTLDs 
because of the requirement for global interoperability.

Ran
rja@inet.org