At 11:10 AM +0100 6/10/08, Gervase Markham wrote: >Kim Davies wrote: >> This thread sounds remarkably like deja vu. Indeed, the TLD community was >> rather upset a few years ago by Mozilla taking unilateral action to >> introduce a hard-coded white-list of acceptable IDN TLDs without prior >> consultation. > >That's unfortunate; but I must say this upset was not communicated to me. > >That policy of ours should have no effect whatsoever on TLDs with a >responsible attitude to homographs. Our registration requirements are >not onerous.
For your IDN display technology, Mozilla decides which TLDs have a "responsible attitude". Mozilla enforces these rules as a "powerful incentive" for TLDs to do as Mozilla wishes. In doing so, Mozilla degrades the user experience of TLDs that don't go along with the Mozilla rules, such as .com/.net and ccTLDs throughout the world. The Mozilla "public suffix list" may prove to be similar. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
