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

[Michael Everson]

At 19:09 +0000 2006-12-22, Gervase Markham wrote:

>You don't own the word "evertype" worldwide, of course.

Of course, and my question was rhetorical, using "evertype" which has 
some letters which could be Cyrillic.

>You do own "evertype.com"; as for what protection you have against 
>that being spoofed, you need to ask the company running the .com 
>registry. As I understand it, the current answer is "none 
>whatsoever".

Right.

>You can take a small amount of comfort from the fact that if your customers

I don't really have "customers" in the sense that most people think 
of it. Wanna buy an alphabet?

>are using Firefox, they can't be fooled. (And probably not IE 7 
>either, for different reasons.) But that doesn't help for other 
>software.

Do try not to forget Safari.

>If this concerns you, you may wish to either try and register all 
>confusables of evertype.com yourself, or move to a TLD which has 
>sensible anti-spoofing rules.

Right. I consider this less good than actually having genuine 
restrictions. Otherwise, why assemble lists of confusables and 
promulgate them? To instruct thieves?

>(I again repeat my willingness to hear from Verisign about their 
>anti-spoofing policy, and enable .com for IDN in Firefox.)

We are neighbours, all of us. Game theory says that competition 
succeeds more with a measure of cooperation. :-)
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com