Re: Specific goals

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Larry Masinter writes:
> I don't see where "internationalization" is out of scope for IAHC. In
> fact, trying to deal with the issues of US dominance seems to be
> clearly _in_ scope. However, the current repertoire of characters that
> are available for domain names are inadequate for most languages
> EXCEPT English. If the charter were said 'Non-US English-speaking'
> instead of 'international', I'd believe that the character set issues
> were out of scope.
> 
> For example, we might want to consider a new set of top level domains
> where the domain names were presumed to be in Unicode UTF-8 instead of
> ASCII

We aren't going to deal with character set issues or other similar
technical issues. The IAHC dealing with changing the DNS to use
Unicaode just isn't going to happen. Technical issues are not part of
our charter. It isn't what we are doing.

> * Fuzzy match
> 
> I agree that this is probably out of scope, except for perhaps the
> character set issues. DNS currently does a 'fuzzy match' for case
> independence.

That feels like an abuse of the term "fuzzy match" as generally
understood. In any case, as I've noted, we are not dealing with
technical issues. That is out of scope.

Perry
Speaking for myself, but I suspect other IAHC members would agree with
me.