Consensus Call Tranche 8 Results

[YAO Jiankang]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Josefsson" <simon at josefsson.org>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark at macchiato.com>
Cc: <idna-update at alvestrand.no>; "Vint Cerf" <vint at google.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus Call Tranche 8 Results


> "Mark Davis" <mark at macchiato.com> writes:
> 
>> It is still premature to add eszett and final sigma until we have some
>> accompanying text that addresses the security exploit.
>> The two possibilities I could think of are:
>>
>>    1. Change the prefix for xn--
> 
> That would work, but it is costly.  It is good to keep this option in
> the discussion, as a sanity test of the cost-benefits of other options.
> I claim that any solution that is more expensive to implement and deploy
> than changing the xn-- prefix should be disqualified.  Of course, the
> difficult part is to assess costs.
> 

agree, changing the prefix is too costly to work.