Re: New TLDs and Registry charters

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 1:40 PM -0500 12/9/96, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

Wot, you mean map IP addresses to numbers? Cool idea. I can remember 10
numbers easier than 26 letters. ;-p

> This being said, wouldn't numbers then, be more appropriate?
>
> Vince
>
> David Collier-Brown wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Kaplan wrote:
> > > Simon, what you forget is that those 42 categories have as many names as
> > > there are languages. You can't just assume that creating 42 iTLDs
>based on
> > > the English-language abreviation of those trademark categories solves the
> > > problem.
> >
> >   Quite correct, but deferrable.  So long as the categories
> > exist in one language, it is trivial for a user interface
> > to substitute their equivalents in a selected language.
> >   I would strongly urge the developers of such interfaces
> > to find the exact equivalents by looking up their language's
> > official term or terms for each of the international
> > cetegories.
> >
> > --dave
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Simon

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