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

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy,

Here's a little more information regarding Chinese variants.  

Simplified Chinese is a collection of characters "created" in support of 
increasing literacy in China.  However, there are some Traditional Chinese 
characters that are included in the common set of characters used by mainland 
Chinese today.  Because of this "simplification" process there are TC and SC 
character mappings which create variants between Traditional Chinese characters 
and Simplified Chinese characters.  This mapping in terms of domain names was 
developed by the CDNC, Chinese Domain Name Consortium; we use this mapping in 
managing variants for .com and .net.

With regard to new gTLDs, I would hope that the recommendation to avoid 
confusingly similar names will provide a means of avoiding variants of the same 
name at the top level.

Chuck Gomes
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:45 PM
> To: Andy Gardner; ga DNSO
> Subject: RE: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to 
> the Internet
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
> Whether they are demanding it or not, the GNSO IDN WG 
> defintitely recommended variant control and I believe the 
> ccNSO would advocate the same, so I think we will see that.  
> Also, the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans worked pretty closely 
> together in this area, which is understandable because they 
> have some common characters.
> 
> Chuck Gomes
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Gardner
> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:18 PM
> > To: ga DNSO
> > Subject: Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the 
> > Internet
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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 ?R?S?y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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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