Re: Single-letter names

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Ted,

As Edmond pointed out, the position at present is that:

"Single and two-character U-labels on the top level and second level of a domain name should not be restricted in general."


I personally expect that for applications made as "IDN ccTLD", whether "fasttrack" or not, will be reviewed for some "meaning". It is my understanding however, that in general, an application for a generic TLD is not, in the plan of record, presently reviewed for "meaning", at least, not in any sense that would preclude a single Unicode glyph.

Example, the Cree character for the "i" vowel (a delta triangle), encoded as xn--zce, is a "single character", and has no "sense" other than a vowel, is allowable, as is the ascii character sequence "iii", which also has no "sense" other than a (repeated) vowel.

Your milage may vary, etc.

Eric


Ted Hardie wrote:
At 9:25 AM -0700 7/7/08, michael.dillon@xxxxxx wrote:
However, many concepts in modern Chinese
dialects require multiple syllables to express them and
therefore multiple characters to write them. So there isn't
really a one to one mapping of word, syllable, concept as
many people suppose.

While there may not be a one-to-one mapping of word,
character, and concept every time, there are many words
and concepts which can be given (and commonly given)
in a single character.  Forcing  those to use multiple characters
to get around a policy limitation may introduce, rather than reduce confusion.
Why would we want to insist on that?
				Ted
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