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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Mark, I respectfully disagree with your assessment. Also based
on the correspondence I have received over the last several years, explains
another reasons that Greek and other non-Latin based addresses are not used as
much. It is simply quite inconvenient to have IDNs at the second level in
non-Latin based scripts, then to switch script when typing the top level
portion of the address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>For that reason IDNs at the second level in certain scripts has
not been introduced or if introduced then not considered useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>This is anticipated to change as we get the IDN TLDs launched.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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idna-update-bounces@alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-bounces@alvestrand.no] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Mark Davis ?<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Erik van der Poel<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Shawn Steele; Patrik Fältström; Harald Alvestrand;
idna-update@alvestrand.no; lisa Dusseault; Alexander Mayrhofer; Martin J.
Dürst; Vint Cerf<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: The real issue: interopability, and a proposal (Was:
Consensus Call on Latin Sharp S and Greek Final Sigma)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>One addition: there is over 35
times as much German content as Greek, so that explains part of the difference
in final-sigma vs eszed proportion. (The relative proportion per language is
important.)<br>
<br clear=all>
Mark<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/12/1 Erik van der Poel <<a
href="mailto:erikv@google.com">erikv@google.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I ran the program again today, and Eszett is being used a
bit more now<br>
than it was last year.<br>
<br>
2009-11-28<br>
1,253,099,703 documents<br>
88,712,912,831 links<br>
8,981 Eszett in host name in link 0.00001%<br>
<a href="http://furz-grosserfurz.de" target="_blank">furz-großerfurz.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.bussgeldexperten.de" target="_blank">www.bußgeldexperten.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.metzgerei-gassner.de" target="_blank">www.metzgerei-gaßner.de</a><br>
<br>
2008-11-19<br>
819,600,672 documents<br>
49,904,513,188 links<br>
2,739 Eszett in host name in link 0.0000055%<br>
<a href="http://www.rtc-grossefehn.de" target="_blank">www.rtc-großefehn.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mein-fussballclub.de" target="_blank">www.mein-fußballclub.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dermassanzug.com" target="_blank">www.dermaßanzug.com</a><br>
<br>
2006-11-27<br>
889,759,121 documents<br>
1,973 Eszett in host name in document URL 0.00022%<br>
<a href="http://www.uni-giessen.de" target="_blank">www.uni-gießen.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.uni-giessen.de" target="_blank">www.uni-gießen.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.uni-giessen.de" target="_blank">www.uni-gießen.de</a><br>
<br>
All 3 of the samples were "high value" documents in our index. The<br>
2006 sample looked for Eszett in the host name in the URL of the<br>
document (rather than links inside the document). It is no longer<br>
possible to find Eszett in the URLs of our documents because they are<br>
now all mapped to "ss". So the 2006 sample cannot really be compared<br>
with the others because the URL of a document always contains a host<br>
name, while a link inside a document might be a relative URL (without<br>
a host name).<br>
<br>
The Final Sigma has not grown as much:<br>
<br>
2009-11-28<br>
305 final sigma in host name in link<br>
0.00000034%<br>
<a href="http://www.xn--mxadbxfgktc4bn4g.gr" target="_blank">www.γυναικολόγος.gr</a><br>
<a href="http://www.xn--mxadbxfgktc4bn4g.gr" target="_blank">www.γυναικολόγος.gr</a><br>
<a href="http://www.xn--mxadbxfgktc4bn4g.gr" target="_blank">www.γυναικολόγος.gr</a><br>
<br>
2008-11-19<br>
138 final sigma in host name in link<br>
0.00000028%<br>
<a href="http://www.xn--mxacja3bxaqb.gr" target="_blank">www.ταβερνες.gr</a><br>
<a href="http://www.xn--owa9dlitap4c.gr" target="_blank">www.ελληναΐς.gr</a><br>
<a href="http://www.xn--mxadbxfgktc4bn4g.gr" target="_blank">www.γυναικολόγος.gr</a><br>
<span style='color:#888888'><br>
Erik</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Mark Davis ☕ <<a
href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It is approximately 60, as you computed. The trillion figure was in a
public<br>
> posting from July 2008, which is why we can quote it.<br>
><br>
> Mark<br>
><br>
><br>
> 2009/12/1 Harald Alvestrand <<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no">harald@alvestrand.no</a>><br>
>><br>
>> Mark Davis ☕ wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> As far as Harald's back-of-the-envelope calculations go, they
present a<br>
>>> very inaccurate picture of the scale. Here are some more exact
figures for<br>
>>> that data.<br>
>>><br>
>>> 1. 819,600,672 = sample size of documents<br>
>>> 2. 5,000 = links with eszed in the sample<br>
>>> 3. 1,000,000,000,000 = total documents in
index (2008)<br>
>>> 4. 1,220 = scaling factor (= total docs /
sample size)<br>
>>> 5. 6,100,532 = estimated total links with
eszed (= scaling *<br>
>>> sample eszed links)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Even this has to be taken with a certain grain of salt, since (a)
it is<br>
>>> assuming that the sample is representative (although we have
reasonable<br>
>>> confidence in that), and (b) it doesn't weight the
"importance" of the links<br>
>>> (in terms of the number of times they are followed), and (c) this data
was<br>
>>> collected back in Nov 2008, so we've had another year of growth
since then.<br>
>><br>
>> I obviously need a bigger envelope :-) - I didn't think we had one<br>
>> trillion documents in the 2008 index.<br>
>><br>
>> One missing number: how many links per document?<br>
>><br>
>> Obviously #eszed links / #documents can't be the basis of the 0.00001%<br>
>> figure that Erik quoted, because 5000/819600672 = 0.00061005%, not
0.00001%,<br>
>> which is a factor of 60 larger, but if we estimate 60 links per
document,<br>
>> the 0.00001% fits nicely as the percentage of links that contain
eszed.<br>
>><br>
>> Harald<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
><br>
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