Re: [idn] homograph attacks

[Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>]

William Tan wrote:
> For a gTLD, the language tag comes in handy, so we 
> could apply different language tables to IDNs according to their 
> intended language.

This is not really in the spirit of DNS itself, though. Before IDN was 
invented, people registered domain names that weren't in any language. 
For example, the name "microsoft" was not a word in any language when it 
was first introduced.

So it is not really fair to the IDN registrants to require them to state 
what language or set of languages their domain name is intended to be 
in, since DNS has not previously imposed such a restriction, and a lot 
of domain names have already been registered under this relaxed convention.

Erik