Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE label version 0.2

["Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>]

This is a pipe-dream. See my messages of
Wednesday, July 18, 2001 09:45
Thursday, July 19, 2001 08:20

One might be fooled by how easy it is to come with with a simple list
between two scripts, such as Greek and Latin. But then the complications
arise: are rho and p to be considered confusable? Then there are extended
characters, like Latin small letter open e (ɛ) and epsilon (ε).  You rapidly
(I almost wrote "rabidly") slide off into gray areas even with just two
scripts. When it comes to comparing all the characters of the world, in many
combinations of fonts, the problem quickly becomes intractible.

We have had a lot of experience dealing with huge numbers of characters. It
is harder than it looks.

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
To: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 06:04
Subject: Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into ACE
label version 0.2


> Eric,
>
>  If my favorite internet  phone company ever  issue two  internet phone
numbers:
>    1)   254-5628   ( all latin digits )
>    2)   254-5628   (8  is Bengali '4'  )
>  for two distinct entities,
>  We can say the integrity of the number system is already severely flawed
, even
> before
>  the first  innocent victim takes 2) for 1) and actually makes a dangerous
phone
> call.
>
>  Uniqueness of identifiers depends partly on human mental distinction
between
> names.
>  For the blind, even the 'a.com' and 'x.com' displayed on the screen , do
not
> provide
>  any clues for mutual distinction.
>
>  DNS contains the core internet identifier system which MUST provide  name
>  uniqueness to audiences from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds
,
>  while the global network of DNS protocol implementations adds
universality .
>
> Soobok
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
> To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
> Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>; "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine"
> <brunner@nic-naa.net>; <brunner@nic-naa.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [idn] new I-D: Safely Encoding of likeness information into
ACE
> label version 0.2
>
>
> > Soobok,
> >
> > There is a difference between altering the assocation between a name and
an
> > address, whether this operation is performed with global or local scope,
and
> > creating an association beteen a name and another name.
> >
> > The first is an integrity problem for the DNS, the second is a
disambiguation
> > problem for something other than the DNS.
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
>