language question re: IDNs
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Wed Oct 7 14:51:41 CEST 2009
Quoting Debbie:
> I suppose it would depend on whether you were referring to glyphs or the
> domain name as a whole. E.g Homomorphic bundling meaning the whole domain
> name and Homoglyph bundling meaning just the relevant glyphs. For me
> Homoglyph bundling means mapping of individual glyphs so I still think
> Homomorphic domain name bundling is correct in this context.
That's a very reasonable distinction in itself and surely nice to have
waiting to put forward in any context where it might be useful. Again FWIW
-- the ICANN w.g. really is focusing on homoglyphic identity (without any
intention of exporting the terminology), and IDNA is explicitly restricted
to labels and not entire names.
/Cary
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