A-label definition

[John C Klensin]

--On Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 02:44 -0700 Vint Cerf
<vint at google.com> wrote:

> Martin that sounds right to me too. John are we missing some
> important collateral issue?

Nope.  While single-character names make me nervous even with
"ideographic" scripts, Martin is clearly correct.

Were we (for some value of "we") to go with a document that was
partially or mostly a discussion of tradeoffs and
recommendations, as suggested in my previous note, it could
sensibly discuss the issues here and then leave the decisions to
ICANN (presumably on a case-by-case basis, which is the way all
TLD decisions are made).

      john

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
> <idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no> To: John C Klensin
> <klensin at jck.com>; Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> Cc:
> idna-update at alvestrand.no <idna-update at alvestrand.no> Sent:
> Mon Jun 23 21:54:32 2008
> Subject: Re: A-label definition
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> I mostly agree with you, but I have to disagree clearly
> on one point:
> 
> At 21:52 08/06/23, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
>>       * We should apply the same rules to U-labels (native
>>       character string forms) for TLDs, i.e., no digits, no
>>       punctuation, and, preferably, at least two or three
>>       characters (in the "print position" sense of "character"
>>       long, not dependent on however Unicode coding happens to
>>       work) long.
> 
> The "at least two or three characters" in my view is fine for
> alphabetic scripts (in the wider sense, i.e. including things
> such as Arabic (mostly just consonants) and Indic scripts
> (inherent vowels)).
> 
> But it can make a lot of sense to use one-character TLDs from
> ideographic and syllabic scripts (Han ideographs, Hangul,
> Ethiopic,...). Most of the characters in these scripts would
> be written with two or more letters in Latin and simlar
> scripts, most of the characters in these scripts would be
> entered by two or more keystrokes,..., and in particular for
> Han ideographs and Hangul, there are more of them available
> than basic Latin two-letter combinations.
> 
> So we either make a script-type based distinction, or we leave
> it to ICANN altogether.
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 
> 
># -#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin
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