Re: Unique Names

["brandon_wirick" <bwirick@calpoly.edu>]

What you say is perfect, Matt. For a convention like this to work, it
should be unofficial but not necessary to explain every time one uses
it. When we are finally able to talk to our computers using Lojban,
they should attempt to figure out the cmene we use, (making use of the
Semantic Web of course) but if nothing comes up, they should not throw
errors. If I say to my computer, "le gerku pe la rem.xeltyn.paris. mi
ba'e batci," it should look up "rem.xeltyn.paris." according to the
convention, and if it finds something, sweet, but if not, no biggie.
Also, if it finds something, (as long as it parses no other cmene
which end in ".paris.," all references to just "la paris." (or "la
xeltyn.paris.") would refer to the same person.

The only place where this might need some semi-official help from LLG
or something is if a computer tries to parse a name without a
top-level domain, e.g. "la mykfarlein.set.," in which case it should
go through the popular TLDs looking for "mykfarlein.," but where could
it get a list of TLDs? A link off of lojban.org? A site with which all
TLDs register? Perhaps just the TLDs that have been used so far? Any
thoughts, anyone?

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Matt Arnold <mattarn@1...> wrote:
> This would be rejected by some people if they felt you were
proposing an addition to the language, imposing constraints on
speakers which we don't want the language to impose, but I don't see
it as a change to the language itself. Were this registry to be
successful, it would be no more than a cultural phenomenon specific to
Lojban-speaking culture. When you feel the time is right you should
launch the service on the web just like you'd launch any
English-language name registry, and see if people want to use it. But
keep it free of the impression that it's built-in to Lojban.