North American Network Operators Group   Re: Mozilla Implements
TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDNHomogr aphs Spoofing
• From: Neil Harris   • Date: Thu Jul 28 12:39:56 2005  Florian
Weimer wrote:  * Jason Sloderbeck:  Yes, it's recognized by
Mozilla and others as the job of the Internet Architecture Board
(in particular, the IAB-IDN group) to make a final decision on
how to deal with homographs.  Homographs are a classical example
of a PR attack. It's a complete non-issue. In practice, people
don't use domain names to assess the credibility of web sites.
1/l/I and 0/O are homographs as well, and the Internet hasn't
collapsed as a result.  The really stunning thing about the
whole mess is that nobody seems to grasp that technically, TLDs
are not in a position to restrict name server operators to any
character sets in the domain names they use. After all, I can
add any domain name I want to my zone files.  Indeed you can.
But since the TLD registry operators can, and do, control the
delegation of