RE: [gnso-idng] rethinking IDN gTLDs

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

Well said Eric.

Chuck 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:57 AM
> To: Gomes, Chuck
> Cc: Avri Doria; gnso-idng@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [gnso-idng] rethinking IDN gTLDs
> 
> Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> > Here's what I think is a simpler way to make my point: If 
> the problems 
> > anticipated by offering confusingly similar strings are 
> avoided, then 
> > the restriction of offering the strings is unneccessary.
> 
> 
> Agree.
> 
> We're not doing string comparison for the mathematical 
> pleasure of describing the algebraic structure of semi-groups 
> and their generators, but because some non-algebraic property 
> exists outside of the universe of character repertoires and 
> the strings generated over them, some property with a lawyer attached.
> 
> More broadly, some, if not all of the IRT issues are dealt 
> with if the application is not considered in an artificial 
> vacuum. There's not a lot more gained by lawyering in the 
> abstract than from string manipulation in the abstract.
> 
> 
> So, restrictions are context dependent, not absolute.
> 
> Eric
>