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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 [email protected] wrote: > > They are battling it out in the marketplace and one of the IDN solutions > will evolve to the point where the market considers it clearly superior. > This may be the IETF-blessed solution and it may not. One only has to > browse through the RFC archives to see that RFC status is no guarantee > that something will be widely adopted. > > Personally, I think that the Internet is too young and we have too > little experience with multilingual naming to engineer an > Internationalised Domain Naming solution that solves the problem once > and for all. This means that we should be ready for more than one > iteration to get to the solution. We should be careful to distinguish between i18n and localization. These private alternative DNS roots are specific to a particular set of users, so they implement DNS l10n which is not appropriate for a system that is supposed to be international. Slogan: localization is balkanization. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD.
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