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Re: [idn] Tilde
Title: Re: [idn] Tilde
Martin wrote:
There are good reasons for registrars to
implement such policies.
Otherwise, somebody could register "miÒrosoft.com", where
the
letter "c" is actually "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES"
- and that
just happens to look similar to a latin "c" in most
fonts.
Therefore, registrars need policies to prevent that from
happening.
One such policy is "if one letter is cyrillic, they all have to
be".
I don't actually know whether Verisign has a policy for valid
labels in the cyrillic script, but if there should be a policy,
the registrar is the place where to enforce it.
Of that, I'm not so sure.
The process you are focusing on is prohibiting abuse rather than
providing more opportunity for "law bidding" users. In other
words, you're hurting all, because of a few.
Clearly, if Microsoft has problems with someone mimicking their
name, then there are the courts and ICANN and other avenues for
recourse. The Internet is not that much different than any other
publishing industry. If you want to regulate it from the get-go, then
I suspect that you will face more than your share of problems.
For example, recently the Casinos in Las Vegas was approached by
Homeland Security with tapes of suspected terrorist. However, the
Casinos turned down the offer. Why? Because by viewing the tapes, they
opened themselves to more liability if anything happened. As Jay Leno
said last night on the Tonight show "They are more afraid of
Lawyers than of Terrorist."
Likewise, if the actions of the IETF IDN (or whomever) is to
limit certain code points in an effort to prohibit the aforementioned
abuse, then they are also assuming liability if someone out-thinks
them.
Interesting, don't you think?
tedd
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