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Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sat May 8 14:44:25 2010

Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 13:43:50 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100508123622.GA2552@macbook.catpipe.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 5/8/2010 07:36, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> 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.


Wait until the FCC, FTC, and IRS finish taking over the Internet.

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