[vip] Multi-script TLDs (was Re: Descriptive terminology)

[Francisco Arias]

On 9/3/11 4:08 AM, "Cary Karp" <ck at nic.museum> wrote:


>Since a label has no intrinsic attribute of language and there is no
>protocol restriction on the number of scripts that may appear in it, it
>is also be possible to write "kista” using a Cyrillic, rather than a
>Latin final letter. That gives "kistа”, and since the CYRILLIC SMALL
>LETTER A and the LATIN SMALL LETTER A are commonly represented with the
>same glyph, the Swedish and the hybrid strings are visually identical.
>Not confusable -- identical. If we are comfortable in freeing the term
>"homograph” from the requirement that it applies to words in the same
>language, and are further willing to drop the requirement of the objects
>of comparison being words at all, then "kista” and "kistа” may also be
>termed homographs.

Besides protocol restrictions there could also be policy restrictions. For
example, there could be a policy prohibiting TLD labels that have code
points from Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

Thoughts?

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Francisco