Re: nameprep, IDN spoofing and the registries

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:18:07PM -0800,
 Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 218 lines which said:

> As George points out, the registries are going to have to start
> filtering IDN lookalikes, otherwise they will eventually face
> lawsuits from the "big boys" (as George so delightfully puts it).

Quite the opposite: according to our lawyer, if the process is
completely automatic (no human eyes involved), you can disclaim any
responsability. But if you do screen, you accept a liability if the
screening fails (and it will fail, trying to catch homographs is an
hopeless task).

I seriously doubt that european registries, which all moved from a
"screen every domain to check if it is legal" model to a "accept
anything" model in the '90s will go back...