Mixing scripts (Re: Unicode versions (Re: Criteria for
exceptional characters))
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri Dec 22 20:21:33 CET 2006
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
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