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Re: [idn] hostname history hell



> 
> ASCII versions of these are already prohibited by nameprep. 
> Look-alikes
> from other ranges should be prohibited to eliminate security 
> problems
> which would arise from purposefully misleading domain names.
>

1) Are these "Look-alikes from other ranges" going to be prohibited
forever? Or 2) are you suggesting them to be left for future resolution? 

If it is 1) then the Kanji users will be unhappy about loosing  
codepoints from UCS.  If it is 2), then it is consistent with [TSconv] 
authors. 

Liana