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Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Mon Jul 18 00:50:08 2005

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:49:32 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
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To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> After extensive analysis and discussion, the Mozilla community and Opera 
> have already produced a fix for this, based on only displaying Unicode
 > IDN labels where the registry publishes and enforces well-defined
 > anti-homograph policies, and displaying the Punycode equivalent

1. It's strange that so many months of discussion and debate about this 
elsewhere missed such an obvious and complete solution.

2. Who is the authority that decides whether a TLD uses an acceptable policy?

3. How does this apply to subordinate domains that might or might not enforce 
"acceptable" policies, given that no all policy-making is at the TLD level?


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