Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

[Neil Harris <neil () tonal clara co uk>]

Brad Knowles wrote:

>     My point was that, if you're going to try to protect the users 
> against homophone/homograph attacks, you need to do it in a 
> standardized way.
>
>     Morover, the standards for controlling that need to be held by 
> separate entities from those who are creating the tools which will 
> implement those standards -- witness Microsoft's recent downgrading of 
> Claria/Gator as a malware vendor, simply because they're looking at 
> buying the company.
See Unicode Technical Report 36, rev 3. 
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/ for a thorough treatment of the 
issues involved, under the auspices of the vendor-neutral Unicode 
Consortium.

See in particular Appendix B, Confusables Detection,  and Appendix F, 
Country-Specific IDN Restrictions.

Finally, I just thought that I should point out that this problem 
potentially exists in internationalizing _any_ protocol that uses 
human-readable identifiers, not just DNS.

-- Neil





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