Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

[Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> I was waiting for clarification of a couple questions I had.  I can  
> tell
> you that we do offer registrations at the second level in both
> traditional and simplified Chinese, but they are not referred to as
> variants.  In both scripts we use variant tables provided by the  
> Chinese
> community to control variants.
The obvious question then is if the Chinese community wanted variant  
control, why are they not insisting on it at the TLD level?
And if the TLD test DOES work fine with both simplified and  
traditional variants of "test" running, why are they insisting on  
variant control at all?
It's always made me wonder why if HSBC registers 匯豐銀行.com to  
service their customer in Hong Kong, the Chinese community deems it  
necessary to not allow them to register 汇丰银行.com also, to the  
detriment of their customers in Shanghai.
And why the same rule prevents 中国.com (China in Chinese) to be  
registered, because someone else registered it in Japanese first.
Don't make sense.