On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:33:14AM +0100,
 john daw <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 169 lines which said:

> what impact the IDNA 2008 policy will have

It's actually IDNA 2010 since the RFC were all issued this year. 

> ondomain name registrant's who have a domain that does not fall
> underthe policy's permissible code-points, particularly symbol-based
> domainnames.

Do note they are probably uncommon, at least at the second-level since
most (probably all) of the TLD never allowed them.

> what in practice, will itmean if someone types in e.g. ?.com in
> their browser under IDNA 2008?

Browser policy. But typically, users will be presented with an error
message.

> Will IDNA 2008 not allow the domain registrant to satisfy a user's
> queryby forwarding them on to a different domain name?

Yes, browsers can (not MUST, CAN) perform mapping from what the user
typed to a legal domain name.

<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/> may be an interesting reading
for you.
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