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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:13:44 +0100
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Subject: RE: [idn] homograph attacks
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At 14:30 16/02/2005, Kane, Pat wrote:
>Wil is correct.  We are deploying the German table this year.

If I am reading you correctly, you mean that you will deploy the German 
table this year because the DENIC or ASNIC will enter a table. If they 
differ which table do you pick? The addition or what?

In your contract with ICANN are you not bound by some obligations irt the 
tables?
Thank you.
jfc



>Pat
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Tan [mailto:wil@dready.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:22 AM
>To: "Martin v. Löwis"
>Cc: Michel Suignard; Kane, Pat; idn@ops.ietf.org; ericj@shmoo.com; tedd
>Subject: Re: [idn] homograph attacks
>
>
>
>Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
> >
> > which is a subset of the .DE list. I'm (now) certain that Verisign
> > has a definitive list of characters for a German label in the
> > .COM zone (and I expect this is the same list that DENIC uses,
> > as that is the superset of the Austrian and Swiss sets).
> >
>Pat can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that VGRS does
>NOT have a table associated with the German language. So, if you went
>ahead and register an IDN, and selected the German language, you can
>pretty much register any label that is permitted by IDNA, including
>characters that aren't remotely related to German.
>
>Regsards,
>wil.