Browser IDN display policy: opinions sought

[Abdulrahman I. ALGhadir]

I think currently both ICANN and IANA maintain a public list for new IDNs and their supported script/language, see the 2 lists:
 - IANA : http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/
 - ICANN: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-en.htm

These 2 lists can be easily combined and amended with some extra fields to suit the application developer needs. For example, additional field can be added to cover supported languages and scripts that will help applications safely to display U-Labels instead of A-Labels when the language/script rules is met.

AbdulRahman,


-----Original Message-----
From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Gervase Markham
Sent: 19/Dec/2011 1:42 PM
To: Raed Al-Fayez
Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Browser IDN display policy: opinions sought

Hi Raed,

Thank you for your input.

I would say that the vendor you quote is using sloppy language and it's not actually about 'prioritizing English', but your point about first-class citizenship is a good one.

If all registries were are responsible as yours, there would hardly be a need for browser restrictions on IDN display at all (perhaps just a blacklist of homographs for "." and "/", and that should have been achieved by IDNA2008 anyway).

> IDNs should not be treated as second-class citizens on the Internet.

I entirely agree. This is why we went for option B - once a registry has a responsible policy, their IDNs are treated as first-class citizens everywhere (at least, in Firefox). No additional configuration required.

Unfortunately, IDNs are still not treated as first-class citizens. So the question is: how do we get from where we are now to a situation where they are treated that way?

Gerv
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