[idn] Re: dichotomies

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

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> Another bifurcation that could be considered somewhat analogous is that 
> of http vs https. We might even want to consider bringing the topic of 
> security into the ACE prefix discussion. One could imagine a world where 
> two different ACE prefixes co-exist, one new prefix for "secure" domain 
> labels, the other (old) prefix for less secure labels.

Sorry, I forgot to say that a Web site would choose the new secure ACE 
prefix when they use https. In fact, they would make that choice for 
similar reasons, i.e. to allow the user agent to distinguish this site 
from a less secure one, similar to Mozilla's current choice of using the 
padlock icon and a different color near the URI at the top for https.

Erik