Re: My prod at IDN requirements

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 11:11 05.01.00 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

>Why not? Couldn't somebody create something like WWW.1BM.c0m, and try
>to confuse people?

Already done. See micros0ft.com (currently located offshore somewhere, 
after exchanging angry letters with Microsoft advocates).



> > It is up to the presentation system to see that the user sees a difference
> > based on the rules in the DNS server.
>
>There is no guarantee that at all places where
>DNS names are displayed, a font with the relevant distictions is
>used. Or is there?

there are no guarantes.

                Harald

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