[vip] [latin-vip] Loudly spoken opinions - input for today's meeting

[Patrik Fältström]

One thing we also have are two words spelled the same, but pronounced differently that means different things.

Example (in Swedish):

kista [chi:sta] : A suburb of Stockholm, where lots of IT industry is located

kista [chista]  : A coffin

That leads to "interesting" race conditions when people want to register domain names.

We also in Sweden have two cities named Habo and Håbo. They have been in a domain dispute about the name habo.se, which was registered correctly by Håbo (before IDN existed). Both lost (they where told to use a shared webpage -- see http://habo.se/).

   Patrik

On 2 sep 2011, at 07:45, Francisco Arias wrote:

> I wonder what others think about the ideas in this document posted to the
> latin team. Apologies to Harald for putting you in the spot.
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> On 8/25/11 7:25 AM, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:
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>> I don't know if I can make today's meeting (conflicts), but I thought
>> I'd write some opinions.
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>> This is written as starkly as possible in order to make it very clear
>> what I think - it may come across as more strident than is really
>> warranted. Others may have different opinions.
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>> Anyway, it's a starting point.
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> <issues-my-notes.doc>