Re: [idn] NSI Multilingual Testbed Information (fwd)

[Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>]

> Multilingual Certification Evaluation
> 
> Each registrar must successfully complete a multilingual certification
> evaluation for each language encoding in which it will be registering names.

Ack!

What does "language encoding" mean here? This is unfortunately very
imprecise and misleading wording.

I presume the intent here is for each *character* encoding in which it
will be registering names. Any character encoding could support multiple
different languages (since even ASCII alone can support a number of languages) --
and I don't imagine the multilingual certification evaluation wants to
end up heading down the rathole of trying to determine whether
"beethoven.com" is to be an English certification or a German certification,
for example.

--Ken Whistler