looking up domain names with unassigned code points

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

    If this is true, this is a very disappointing outcome -the .SU  
    operators are certainly damaging our general efforts to make the  
    Internet a less confusing place in which to operate.
    
Actually, I take it to be butchered English more then anything else.
    
    > but on April 28th, the .SU TLD registry began accepting the
    > registration of subdomain labels beginning with xn-- without requiring
    > them to be valid output of the Punycode algorithm:
    >
    > "A user or service provider can either design software used for
    > decoding and decoding algorithm on his own or use PUNYCODE algorithm

What more likely is, is that people can roll there owm implementation of
the algorythm.

    > recommended by ICANN and published in RFC documents."
    >
    > 	http://www.fid.su/english/?newsid=1207819620
    >
    > One purpose of allowing non-IDNA-compliant alternatives appears to be
    > to permit script mixing:
    >
    > "In the process of generation of domain names with xn-- prefix using
    > encoding algorithms mentioned in RFC documents registrators are not
    > allowed to mix symbols of different national alphabets."
    >

Note that only ICANN have said anything about script mixing. It is
allowed in idna2003. And this paragraph can also be read as a statement
that the su regsitry does not accept mixed cases.

	jaap