Re: [idn] VIDN

["James Seng/Personal" <James@Seng.cc>]

My name has 6-7 different transliteration, e.g.

1. I am more commonly known to my mandarin friends as "Zhuang Zhen Hong"
   (using China Hanyu Pinyin). Taiwanese have different transliteration
   which I am not familiar.

2. My mother call me "Zhon Zhin Hong".

3. Officially I am 'Seng Ching Hong' on my travel document and no one I
   know has been able to transliterate to this given my chinese ideograph.

So, I would prefer people to call me James Seng if they cant speak Chinese, to
avoid confusion. :-)

-James Seng

>   I do think that there are some interesting ideas here that might be
> quite applicable to the 'DNSng' stuff that John Klensin's paper is
> pointing towards.  Issues of transliteration are going to be important as
> the scope and localization of the Internet increases.  For example, your
> (James) name as presented in the 'task force' report yesterday was in a
> script I cannot read, yet is in (I assume) your preferred
> representation.  Given that I am not likely to learn Chinese very soon, my
> 'user agent' should probably help me out by providing a reasonable
> transliteration of your name.  In the context of the Directory DNS, I
> might want to be able to find a resource via a transliteration of its
> name.  The VIDN work might provide a pointer to what works and doesn't
> work here.