Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:12 12/10/2007, Andy Gardner wrote:
> Please explain how a long idn domain beginning with xn-- is somehow
> more dangerous to the DNS than any other ascii domain name of the
> same limited character length?
>
> Is xn-- some magical character sequence that terrorists came up with?
>
> Sheesh. This will be on Fox "News" next.
:-)
"xn" is the european code for "dangerous"
"xn" is also an abreviation for "christian"
"xn" is also the largest insurance group for expats. Good advertising.

As I documented it, "xn" is not the real issue. "--" is, because it 
means that, one way or another, one plays with with the DN display or usage.
I am surprised no one talked yet of phishing, and babel names, and 
the fact there is nothing new under the sun. 3LD IDN are in use for 
very long. http://jean-françois.jefsey.com is a very old example we 
compile at the Eurolinc WG IDN (so old, I do not even remember what 
it is in there, so probably some issues are missing?).
jfc