Browser IDN display policy: opinions sought
Paul Hoffman
phoffman at imc.org
Tue Dec 13 19:31:55 CET 2011
On Dec 13, 2011, at 10:16 AM, John Levine wrote:
> Having been reading this discussion with great interest, I don't
> understand what problem is being solved. Is it:
>
> A) Only display names that are not deceptive?
>
> B) Don't display names that might be deceptive?
>
> C) Don't display names that fail to meet some policy that
> doesn't really have anything to do with deception?
>
> D) Only display names that meet some policy?
>
> E) Something else?
>
> It clearly can't be A, since there's plenty of room for deception in
> plain ASCII, and people can put random names at the Nth level, e.g.,
> FDIC.GOV.FOO.BAR.SOMETHING.TLD. Beyond that, I'm baffled.
The stated reason for not just displaying the Unicode every time is to avoid deception. So, (B).
--Paul Hoffman
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