From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 13:17:46 CST
At 09:20 -0800 2005/02/14, Mark Davis wrote:
>2. The UTC has authorized the editorial committee to make updates to #36
>between UTC meetings, to allow for faster turn-around in presenting both
>background material and recommendations. We will try to incorporate ideas
>presented on these lists and others, so suggestions are welcome.
It might be difficult to capture the problem in its entirety by attempting
to cutting down on homographs, for various reasons. So one idea that comes
to my mind is to require that IDN's which uses non-ASCII characters must
also register an additional name equivalent using ASCII characters only.
Browsers would then be recommended to also display the ASCII equivalent, for
names where this is available (and perhaps the opposite as well). (In fact,
it would be good to recommend browsers to also display the IP address, as if
it is funny, it can give hints of a spoof.) Then all sites can be reachable
using an ASCII name, which I think is desirable from the point of view of
international access.
Hans Aberg
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