off list request - IDNs and security

[Vint Cerf]

The latter

----- Original Message -----
From: Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org>
To: Vint Cerf
Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no <idna-update at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Mon Jun 30 09:18:13 2008
Subject: Re: off list request - IDNs and security

Vint Cerf wrote:
> I have been asked to speak about the potential confusion that IDNs  
> could introduce if not properly constrained either by protocol or by  
> registry restrictions.
> 
> It would be very helpful to have some real examples of potentially  
> confuseable registrations in their original scripts (eg Chinese,  
> Arabic, Urdu, Cyrillic, Greek, Indian scripts, etc).

A clarification: by "in their original scripts", do you mean "without
script mixing"? Or do you just mean that you want the examples sent to
you using the actual characters involved?

Gerv