[82709] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jul 28 10:29:42 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Phillip Vandry <vandry@TZoNE.ORG>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:15:39 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20050728125836.GA14525@OZoNE.TZoNE.ORG> (Phillip Vandry's
message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:58:36 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Phillip Vandry:
> Does anyone else think that it's not the job of a web browser to do
> this? The web browser shouldn't even know about IDN details. The
> system's resolver library should convert non ASCII labels to the
> Punycode representation when sending querries, and convert back
> after receiving responses!
>
> Otherwise how can all my applications support IDN?
Because we currently have IDNA, and "A" stands for "applications".
