Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > > So have the security implications of these new domain names really
> > > been thought through?
> > Of course not.  Security is an afterthought.  Making money for the
> > infrastructure companies comes first.

(In passing, something in your email software is mangling quotes; it
replaced two ordinary spaces with non-break spaces.  I changed them
back in the quote above.)

> > It's been a long time since Internet governance had anything to do
> > with governing well (as opposed to profitably).

> Oh, come off it.  There are reasons to make changes to networks other
> than security.  It's a genuine, non-corrupt reasonable demand that
> you should be able to have your own language in DNS.

Certainly.  All I'm saying is that (I believe) the cha-ching overrode
any impluse there may have been toward giving the security concerns
anything like the thought they need.  (Not that this is surprising; if
security were important enough to them for them to have done that, they
would have done various other highly visible things first.)

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