[idn] gTLD Registry Constituency's statement

[William Tan <wil@dready.org>]

The gTLD Registry Constituency issued a statement about the homograph 
attack: http://www.icann.org/topics/news022305.html

   For languages that use the LDH characters and for which a registry
   does not have explicit inclusion tables, the LDH table may be used
   as a default table for registration requests tagged with those
   languages, pending fully developed inclusion tables becoming
   available during the course of dialogue between the registries and
   their reference groups in the respective language communities. The
   decision to apply the LDH default to a given language will be made
   in consideration of the requirements applying to the other scripts
   that might appear in the full inclusion table, such as the
   restrictions on bidirectional strings imposed by the IDNA standard.

   These measures will be implemented in the shortest possible time by
   all of the IDN registries listed above.


AFAIK, only com/net has not implemented the restriction in the paragraph 
quoted above. This may be an indication that Verisign will essentially 
stop allowing languages for which they have no inclusion tables? If 
that's the case, it's certainly good news for the community.

Nothing has been said about the pre-existing names in those registries, 
and how they would deal with them in the case of renewals.

wil.