Re: [idn] process

["Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>]

Erik van der Poel <erik at vanderpoel dot org> wrote:

> 1. Is this the right time to start working on Internet Drafts leading
> up to new version(s) of the IDNA RFC(s)? If not, when?
> ...

I don't know about anyone else, but something seems badly wrong here.

Is it really possible that we spent a year and a half, two years on
putting together an IDN architecture, and during all that time nobody
ever gave the slightest thought to the possibility of someone using IDNs
for spoofing purposes, and now that one or two well-publicized spoofing
examples have appeared, we are ready to start all over again with a new
and probably incompatible version of the architecture?

Is this sending the kind of "stability" message that was considered so
important two or three years ago?

Is there even enough solid information to begin writing anything, or
just a general feeling that Something Needs To Be Done?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/