Re: [Idna-update] emoji and security

John C Klensin <john@jck.com> Tue, 13 March 2018 22:22 UTC

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--On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 16:17 -0400 John Levine
<johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

>...
> There have been some presentations on what's permissible and
> emoji specifically which the ICANN leadership appears to
> understand. Domains like .WS will sell whatever they can sell
> and there's not much anyone can do about that.

For better or worse, the last statement is either untrue or
misleading.  A more accurate statement would be that ICANN, as
an institution, has had no will to do anything about it.

  john