Chinese Domain Name
Consortium (CDNC) Declaration
Based on current status of Internationalized
Domain Name, CDNC makes
following declaration:
1. Currently, IETF IDN WG begins Last Call for
the WG core documents(IDNA, NAMEPREP, STRINGPREP,
and PUNYCODE).
But, the architecture of IDN defined in above
four documents does not solve the traditional and
simplified Chinese character variant problem. That
will cause serious delegation problem in the
application of Chinese Domain Name. This technical
flaw can't be compensated by registration policy;
it'll prevent Chinese Domain Name from being used
widely. All the future Internet applications based
on Chinese Domain Name hierarchy will fail and
ultimately Chinese Domain Name technology will
result in failure.
2. Under the commercial and social pressure, IETF
IDN WG issues Last Call hastily without presenting a
proper Chinese Domain Name technical solution. It
will be detrimental to the ethnic-Chinese Internet
community.
3. IETF IDN WG does not solve Chinese Domain Name
technical problem, but it is IETF IDN WG's
responsibility to sincerely consider the
consequences from adopting these drafts. Under the
current condition, if IETF approves these IDN
drafts, registrars will open Chinese Domain Name
registration without considering the requirement of
Chinese Domain Name and Chinese Domain Name will
fall into confusion. This will damage Chinese
Internet community seriously.
4. IDN would be flawed by not adopting CDN
requirements.
Chinese Domain Name Consortium
CDNC Founding members: CNNIC, TWNIC, HKNIC/HKDNR,
MONIC
Co-chair of CDNC: Qian Hualin, Professor
Co-chair of CDNC: Shian-Shyong Tseng, Professor
2002.2.1
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