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

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Kenneth,

from the documentation I have read to date, conversion technology is to be
provided by existing technology providors or can be developed by the
registrars. the Registry will not apply the conversion technology, its up
to the registrar.

It appears that there is an encoding type for each language, wow looks
like NSI figured everingthing out. 

I guess we can all go home now.

-rick


On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> > 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
>