Re: [idn] quick & dirty (but not too dirty) homograph defense

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

tedd wrote:
> Well... the problem is not totally Versign's, is it?

I agree. Part of the problem is upstream from VeriSign.

> Case in point, the lower and upper case omega. Clearly the upper case 
> omega would not be confused with any other glyph -- it's unique.

That may be true, but would the users like to see an upper case omega in 
the middle of a name? Don't get me wrong -- I appreciate the example -- 
but there are pros and cons to everything.

> As I understand it, this would only require a change in mapping. That 
> should solve at least one "glyph look-alike" problem -- shouldn't it?

Wouldn't this require a new ACE prefix?

Erik