From: Curtis Clark (jcclark-lists@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 09:48:05 CST
on 2005-02-11 07:31 Adam Twardoch wrote:
> This is so anti-i18n. The idea behind IDN was to stop the hegemony of
> the Latin script in domain names. Solutions that prevent the spoofs
> should not again start building up the "our people vs. foreign people"
> way of thinking.
But it can work "both ways". Someone could spoof a brand-new Cherokee
banking site, ᏣᎳᎩ.com, with GWУ.com. Perhaps "Domain name is not in the
script used by your computer operating system."
(Yes, I know that the spoof looks more like "nahlagi".)
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Web Coordinator, Cal Poly Pomona +1 909 979 6371 Professor, Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4062
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