Re: quick & dirty (but not too dirty) homograph defense

Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:31:21 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tedd wrote:
> Well... the problem is not totally Versign's, is it?

I agree. Part of the problem is upstream from VeriSign.

> Case in point, the lower and upper case omega. Clearly the upper case 
> omega would not be confused with any other glyph -- it's unique.

That may be true, but would the users like to see an upper case omega in 
the middle of a name? Don't get me wrong -- I appreciate the example -- 
but there are pros and cons to everything.

> As I understand it, this would only require a change in mapping. That 
> should solve at least one "glyph look-alike" problem -- shouldn't it?

Wouldn't this require a new ACE prefix?

Erik