On 2/11/12 19:34 , Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > yes, domain names that cannot be typed in with any keyboard/charset on > any computer out there, excellent idea, devide and conquerer, i wonder > who came up with that idiotic plan again, probably the ITU or one of > their infiltrants in icann.
If it's worth shoveling blame indiscriminately it's worth informing yourself a little about the timeline and the actors involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name > how about, we simply don't code any software or adjust any platforms to > support it, if nobody uses it, no problem :P > > (or just deliberately break it as its nothing more than a "devide and > conquerer" attempt of the UN anyway ;) > > On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Neil Harris wrote: > >> On 12/02/12 00:09, Masataka Ohta wrote: >>> Neil Harris wrote: >>> >>>> Techniques to deal with this sort of spoofing already exist: see >>>> >>>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html >>> It does not make sense that .COM allows Cyrillic characters: >>> >>> http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/com_cyrl_1.0.html >>> >>> i script of a domain name is Cyrillic. >>> >>> Domain names do not have such property as script. >>> >>> Is the following domain name: >>> >>> CCC.COM >>> >>> Latin or Cyrillic? >>> >>>> for one quite effective approach. >>> The only reasonable thing to do is to disable so called >>> IDN. >>> >>> Masataka Ohta >>> >>> PS >>> >>> Isn't it obvious from the page you referred that IDN is >>> not internationalization but an uncoordinated >>> collection of poor localizations? >>> >> >> I'm not a flag-waver for IDN, so much as a proponent of ways to make IDN >> safer, given that it already exists. >> >> Lots of people have thought about this quite carefully. See RFC 4290 for >> a technical discussion of the thinking behind this policy, and RFC 5992 >> for a policy mechanism designed to resolve the problem you raised in >> your example above. >> >> You will notice that the .com domain does not appear on the Mozilla IDN >> whitelist. >> >> -- N. >> >> >> >> >
