[idn] Re: Unicode and Security

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 11:30 AM +0000 2/8/02, Michael Everson wrote:

>Certainly. Some years ago the European Court upheld the right of a 
>Belgian man whose father was Belgian and mother was Greek to spell 
>his hyphenated last name in both scripts. Why should he not be 
>allowed to register a domain based on his own name?
>

Interesting. But I would content this is an edge case that need not 
be supported  in DNS if the cost of doing so is far greater than the 
benefit to be achieved. Of course under my proposal he could have 
LatinName.GreekName.com
-- 

+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer |
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
|          The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001)           |
|              http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/              |
|   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/   |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
|  Read Cafe au Lait for Java News:  http://www.cafeaulait.org/      |
|  Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/     |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+