Mississippi Hißes
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Fri Dec 11 08:40:50 CET 2009
> I get that Herr Fuß and Herr Fuss are different people
> and pronounce their names differently and all that
Last time I looked, "fuß" and "fuss" were totally unrelated words in the
dictionaries of two languages that figure prominently in the present
discussion. Either is a perfectly reasonable second-level label in any
unrestricted gTLD, and certainly in many ccTLDs as well. Since when is
there a presumption that second-level labels in, say, .DE or .AT, are
intrinsically related to German?
How many times does it need to be noted that:
- the DNS has no way of conveying language-specific information about a
label,
- the DNS in no way requires or assumes that a label has any language
attribute,
- a domain does not intrinsically bequeath any categorizable information
to its children beyond its own identity?
/Cary
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