Re: [idn] IDN spoofing

From: John Burger (john@mitre.org)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 06:39:06 CST

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George W Gerrity wrote:

> c) At this point, the <.com.ru> registrar will need to exercise some
> common sense. For instance, it seems unreasonable that this domain
> should accept codes outside the Latin and Cyrillic code blocks, and if
> they do, then mixes should be strongly discouraged.

It probably doesn't seem unreasonable to Hebrew speakers in Russia.
Any kind of linguistic restriction is definitely not lawyer-proof, in
my opinion, especially for .com, .net, etc., which is where the big
risks are, at the moment.

- John Burger
MITRE

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