28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
10:04 a.m.
* Jason Sloderbeck:
Yes, it's recognized by Mozilla and others as the job of the Internet Architecture Board (in particular, the IAB-IDN group) to make a final decision on how to deal with homographs.
Homographs are a classical example of a PR attack. It's a complete non-issue. In practice, people don't use domain names to assess the credibility of web sites. 1/l/I and 0/O are homographs as well, and the Internet hasn't collapsed as a result. The really stunning thing about the whole mess is that nobody seems to grasp that technically, TLDs are not in a position to restrict name server operators to any character sets in the domain names they use. After all, I can add any domain name I want to my zone files.