Most States in the US have a similar restriction. I remember trying to generate pronounceable passwords, 8 chars long, using alternating consonants and vowels. To see how this might work out in practice, I generated about 500,000 samples and was immediately surprised to find that "DEFECATE" fit this formula perfectly. I am sure you can think of others. Imagine now trying to find a way to automatically avoid sending to a new user his or her automatically generated, pronouceable password without accidently sending something really offensive. :-)<br>
<br>vint<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:38 PM, John C Klensin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klensin@jck.com">klensin@jck.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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--On Monday, April 13, 2009 00:02 +0200 Jaap Akkerhuis<br>
<div class="im"><jaap@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:<br>
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> The next message "Saudis ban 'lewd' license plates"<br>
> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995865.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7995865.stm</a><br>
> made me giggle. Of course, IDNA will have to deal<br>
> with this problem as well :-).<br>
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</div>IDNA, as a protocol, does not. It is going to be a lot of fun<br>
for registries and those who regulate them, especially given the<br>
number of words that people can find offensive, especially when<br>
one script is transliterated into another.<br>
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In particular, I think we should extend our best wishes to ICANN<br>
:-;<br>
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Sigh.<br>
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