[82711] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Sloderbeck)
Thu Jul 28 10:36:28 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:26:03 -0500
From: "Jason Sloderbeck" <jason@positivenetworks.net>
To: "Phillip Vandry" <vandry@TZoNE.ORG>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Phil said:
> Does anyone else think that it's not the job of a web browser to do
this?=20
Yes, it's recognized by Mozilla and others as the job of the Internet
Architecture Board (in particular, the IAB-IDN group) to make a final
decision on how to deal with homographs. However, for early adopters
like Mozilla with a released software package that supports IDNs, they
are taking an intermediate action until the committee comes up with a
guideline.
I think you're both right -- most applications can't feasibly manage
their own Unicode Philosophy, but Mozilla needs to do something for the
short term.
-Jason
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Jason Sloderbeck=20
Positive Networks=20
jason @ positivenetworks . net
