New version of strawman for IDNAv2

JFC Morfin jefsey at jefsey.com
Mon Mar 2 14:22:50 CET 2009


John,
I am glad we at last discuss semiotics in a proper way. You asked if we
should enter typography issues. The problem we have from the very beginning
is that internationalization constrains the human intellectual semantics to
the Anglo-saxon pragmatics, added with some Internet usage/standardization
typographical syntactics (BlueBell, is actually using a virtual space).

Would there be a problem in creating another type of characters as
"IGNORED", meaning that they can be typed but will be ignored by the DNS?Also,
could we not use DISALLOWED code points as a temporary pool of TEMPORARY
code points for typographies not supported (yet) by Unicode?

jfc

PS. As far as I understand punycode supports upper/lowercases. Therefore
French and other languages have much less problems in a non-case folding,
with IGNORED and TEMPORARY classes. What I observe is that contextual rules
are trying to replicate the contextual usage practice and may confuse this
practice, actually diminishing security. They also reduce flexibility: I am
not sure that the semantic/security trade-off is positive. I know this would
change the general perspective of IDNA and also open new possibilities for
attacks. This is why I think the best is to use a regular "xn--" IDNA and an
extended "xx--" IDNA, with possible "x.--" variations when needed. The use
of the same punycode algorithm should greatly increase the security.
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