Re: Tilde

Martin wrote:

>There are good reasons for registrars to implement such policies.
>Otherwise, somebody could register "miÒrosoft.com", where the
>letter "c" is actually "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES" - and that
>just happens to look similar to a latin "c" in most fonts.
>
>Therefore, registrars need policies to prevent that from happening.
>One such policy is "if one letter is cyrillic, they all have to be".
>I don't actually know whether Verisign has a policy for valid
>labels in the cyrillic script, but if there should be a policy,
>the registrar is the place where to enforce it.

Of that, I'm not so sure.

The process you are focusing on is prohibiting 
abuse rather than providing more opportunity for 
"law bidding" users. In other words, you're 
hurting all, because of a few.

Clearly, if Microsoft has problems with someone 
mimicking their name, then there are the courts 
and ICANN and other avenues for recourse. The 
Internet is not that much different than any 
other publishing industry. If you want to 
regulate it from the get-go, then I suspect that 
you will face more than your share of problems.

For example, recently the Casinos in Las Vegas 
was approached by Homeland Security with tapes of 
suspected terrorist. However, the Casinos turned 
down the offer. Why? Because by viewing the 
tapes, they opened themselves to more liability 
if anything happened. As Jay Leno said last night 
on the Tonight show "They are more afraid of 
Lawyers than of Terrorist."

Likewise, if the actions of the IETF IDN (or 
whomever) is to limit certain code points in an 
effort to prohibit the aforementioned abuse, then 
they are also assuming liability if someone 
out-thinks them.

Interesting, don't you think?

tedd
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