Changing the values of domain names and the need for mapping

[JFC Morfin]

This is why the metainformation concerning which mapping solution has
been/is to be used is to be passed, so the resolution stays certain.jfc


2009/2/20 Andrew Sullivan <ajs at shinkuro.com>

>
> Today, if someone "registers" fußbal.tld, what gets registered is
> fussbal.tld.  But if someone types fußbal.tld into a "resolution
> context", it _also_ gets mapped, so that they get to fussbal.tld.
>
> After IDNA2008, that will not be true, and the typer of fußbal.tld
> will either get no resolution at all, or else will go to some other
> site, or (if they're lucky) will be redirected to the same fussbal.tld
> site.
>
> That is certainly a change in behaviour, and one that opens the
> possibility for abuse in a way that the other examples didn't (because
> those other characters were not mapped to something else by protocol).



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