Re: [idn] homograph attacks

[Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>]

This does not make sense to me. As the title "Guidelines" suggests, they 
are merely guidelines for the registries to follow. They are not bound 
to those rules.

Just because ICANN cannot force the registries to follow this guideline 
does not mean you should just throw the baby out with the bath water and 
omit a guideline regarding missing character inclusion tables.

In networking, it is often better to be conservative. ICANN ought to 
know this.

Also, it would be really nice at this point to hear from, say, VeriSign, 
that they are seriously considering this issue. We haven't heard from 
them yet, but they are on this mailing list.

Erik

James Seng wrote:
> I think this suggestion was discussed in the IDN Committee that made the 
> proposed IDN Guideline but was shot down eventually for being too 
> restrictive to registries.
>
> On 17-Feb-05, at AM 05:20, Erik van der Poel wrote:
> > It seems to me that a registry should not allow the registration of an 
> > IDN domain name under a particular language if that registry does not 
> > have a table for that language.