[149700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian de Larrinaga)
Sun Feb 12 12:24:44 2012
From: Christian de Larrinaga <cdel@firsthand.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120212013118.28066.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:23:49 +0000
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The DNS "industry" is putting us a long way from when RFC 2826 was =
written.=20
Christian
=20
On 12 Feb 2012, at 01:31, John Levine wrote:
>> Nice. Basically, unless the TLD registrar has a public policy that =
basically says
>> "We don't allow names with cyrillic C to collide with MICROSOFT", =
their hostnames
>> all get displayed as xn--gobbledygook.
>=20
> More or less. ICANN has been wrestling with the lookalike character
> issue in domain names for about a decade. I think it's fair to say
> that everyone agrees that all solutions are less than totally
> satisfactory.
>=20
> R's,
> John
>=20
