On 7/22/2016 3:41 PM, Jothan Frakes wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org <mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> wrote:
I’ve been grappling with this for la very long and now find out I’m not the only one.
So, how would you simply refer to IDNs.
Having scanned the various responses and having thought a bit about what's likely to be easy for someone's grandmother, I'm afraid I can't think of anything better than international domain names. There are two types of goals for a term. One is that it is automatically understandable, without explanation. The other is that a simple explanation is sufficient to make it comfortable for future use. An average non-technical (and even most technical) person is likely to assume the term means that it's registered in some other country or refers to a place that is in another country, or the like. So we lose on the 'automatic' goal. I can't think of anything likely to win, because the very concept of different scripts is to obscure for most folk. But I think that a pretty simple explanation will suffice for later uses of the term. mumble. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net