Re: Re: character tables

Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:02:55 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John,

John C Klensin wrote:
> So my conclusion is that we need a mixed
> protocol-registry-browser strategy.  That strategy, IMO, should
> shifted the processing burdens as much as possible to the first
> two.  And I think that notions that the problem can or should be
> solved in any of those three places alone are probably misguided.

I strongly agree with everything you said. I am sorry if I gave the 
impression that the browser implementors are the *only* people that can 
and should address this IDN phishing problem. I don't think I said that, 
but maybe I'm just not very good at email and/or expressing myself. I 
also agree that the burden should be shifted as much as possible to the 
first two. It would be bad if the many implementations all did it 
differently.

I would only add one component to your strategy. It should be a 
Unicode-protocol-registry-browser strategy. Unicode has already started 
working on their part:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/

Erik