[126224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internationalized domain names in the root
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Sat May 8 08:36:52 2010
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 14:36:22 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4BE55916.4030408@tonal.clara.co.uk>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Neil Harris (neil) writes:
>
> To fix it, the .eg / .xn--4gbrim TLD registrar needs to contact the
> Mozilla Foundation in order to inform the Foundation of their
> official IDN name allocation policy, so that the native-script URL
> display can then be switched on for their domain.
>
> See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564213 and
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html
Wow, talk about layer violation.
Is there a central place where various TLDs' IDN policies will
be maintained ? I see a scalability issue if TLDs have to communicate
to every single application maintainer out there what their policy is.
Cheers,
Phil
