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[idn] Re: process

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 25 February 2005 11:50 UTC

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:37:25 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net>
Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org, Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>
Subject: [idn] Re: process
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:35:43PM -0800,
 Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> Is it really possible that we spent a year and a half, two years on
> putting together an IDN architecture, and during all that time
> nobody ever gave the slightest thought to the possibility of someone
> using IDNs for spoofing purposes,

This is absolutely wrong. The issue has been discussed at length. See
the "Security Considerations" of RFC 3490.

> and now that one or two well-publicized spoofing examples have
> appeared,

Pure marketing, BTW. Nothing new in the recent announces, just
sensation papers.

> Is there even enough solid information to begin writing anything, or
> just a general feeling that Something Needs To Be Done?

The Powers Above require that Something should be done (they will
forget about it in a few weeks) but, technically speaking, there is
indeed nothing now.

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