looking up domain names with unassigned code points
Jaap Akkerhuis
jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Wed May 14 22:46:03 CEST 2008
If this is true, this is a very disappointing outcome -the .SU
operators are certainly damaging our general efforts to make the
Internet a less confusing place in which to operate.
Actually, I take it to be butchered English more then anything else.
> but on April 28th, the .SU TLD registry began accepting the
> registration of subdomain labels beginning with xn-- without requiring
> them to be valid output of the Punycode algorithm:
>
> "A user or service provider can either design software used for
> decoding and decoding algorithm on his own or use PUNYCODE algorithm
What more likely is, is that people can roll there owm implementation of
the algorythm.
> recommended by ICANN and published in RFC documents."
>
> http://www.fid.su/english/?newsid=1207819620
>
> One purpose of allowing non-IDNA-compliant alternatives appears to be
> to permit script mixing:
>
> "In the process of generation of domain names with xn-- prefix using
> encoding algorithms mentioned in RFC documents registrators are not
> allowed to mix symbols of different national alphabets."
>
Note that only ICANN have said anything about script mixing. It is
allowed in idna2003. And this paragraph can also be read as a statement
that the su regsitry does not accept mixed cases.
jaap
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