Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for exceptional characters))

[Michael Everson]

At 16:42 +0100 2006-12-22, Marcos Sanz/Denic wrote:

>Spoofing is an inherently non-technical issue, which existed before there
>were domain names. You can try to address it with technical tools, but it
>is far from being solved by banning mixed scripts: there will still be
>single-script confusables and whole-script confusables and people who will
>confuse "deutsche-bank.de" with "your-deutsche-bank.de" (what I call
>conceptually confusables) and people who will not be wearing there glasses
>when the click on a link.

Banning script mixing (at whatever level) eliminates one form of 
spoofing. If you do not understand this, well, this process is in 
worse shape than I thought.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com