Re: [ga] potential IDN issue with Greek language

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It appears that the IETF's rationale behind the current IDN framework is 
best summed up by the following approach:

"Start with the entire Unicode set, and eliminate only characters that 
can be explicitly demonstrated as being harmful. This is often referred 
to as the "exclusion-based" model, because you begin with all possible 
elements, and make decisions to exclude. Neither model/principle 
automatically makes the right per-character, or per-script, or 
per-block, decisions; it just provides a framework for the difficult 
cases. (A reminder: these points refer to the definition of 
"Internationalized Host Names", which might be considered a separate and 
distinct IETF work item, to be undertaken in parallel with the 
standardization of "Internationalized Domain Names")."

[ quoted from: http://www.icann.org/committees/idn/idn-codepoint-paper.htm ]

I think the issue with the Greek language IDNA protocol which I pointed 
out is definitely harmful.

Be Well,

Sotiris

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> I have observed the following (what I believe to be) shortcoming in the 
> functioning of the IDN standard(s) as applied to the Greek language.  It 
> appears that one can register a name in lower case Greek characters, and 
> then still be able to go ahead and register the same name in capital 
> letters separately.  Of course, this also means that one can register 
> mixed capital variations of a name as well.  Methinks this is not 
> something to be desired by potential IDN registrants in the non-ascii 
> Greek language.
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos

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