Another Transition Plan Proposal

[Shawn Steele]

And we go back to the "Phishers don't need IDN thread to phish thread."  :)

More seriously, wouldn't not-bundling make it easier on the phishers?  In a bundling world, if fuss.com is already registered, then I'd have a hard time registering fuß.com to catch all those users going to fub.com. 

(Less seriously again:  ooo, it was a random example, but I HAD to type it in and fub.com actually goes to a bank, maybe I should change careers and become a phisher!)

-Shawn

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From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John C Klensin
Sent: ,  10,  2009 15:54
To: Gervase Markham; idna-update at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Another Transition Plan Proposal

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Except one then starts permitting, e.g., ß in strings that have nothing to do with German and putting it in front of people who, absent other clues and seeing what they expect to see, might consider it visually confusable with Greek beta or even Latin "b".  Solving the transition problem by making a gift to the phishers does not seem to me to be optimal.

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    john