Re: [idn] impacted systems investigation

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 15:03 09/03/2001 +0900, Bruce Thomson wrote:
>Sendmail was also discussed as the source of possible problems.
>This problem can be eliminated by suggesting that idns not
>be used in e-mail communications except within the
>intended country. (see my previous post.)

ouch.
a random selection of 974 self-declared Japanese that I just happen to have 
lying around gives:

- 784 .jp addresses
- 80 .com addresses
- 15 .net addresses
- 5 .org addresses
- 3 .mil addresses
- 2 .br adresses

the same set gives for the .jp addresses

- 784 in Japan
- 5 in the US
- 4 in Korea
- 3 in China
- 2 in Thailand

and so on.

what protocol extension were you proposing to make sure those Japanese 
domain names did not leave the country through Sendmail?

For better or worse, we only have one Internet.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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