Re: [idn] Prohibit CDN code points

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 12:32 PM -0500 1/21/02, ben wrote:
>So the question still remains... what to do about the current gTLD
>registrations if infact we want to prohibit CDNs.

There is certainly more than one question if we want to prohibit CDNs.

- What do companies who are not in a ccTLD do if they want to use 
Chinese names in their domain names? For example, it would make sense 
for a company that has a Chinese subsidiary to want to use that name 
in a domain name under their primary name, such as 
<Chinese-name>.company-name.com.

- Looking one level up, if ICANN decides to allow internationalized 
TLDs (as many of us hope they will), will Japan and Korea be forced 
to use unnatural spellings of their names? For how long?

- There are tens of millions of Chinese people who do not live in 
China or Taiwan. Should those people be forced to register only in 
.tw or .cn in order to use their personal or company names?

- What do Japanese and Koreans do if rendering their names 
phonetically is inexact? For example, homonyms are quite common in 
Japanese (I don't know about Korean), and the current proposal 
restricts people and companies to fighting to be first to register a 
phonetic homonym when there would be no fight for them using Han.

There are certainly many other questions that this proposal (for 
which there is no Internet Draft, by the way) brings up.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium