RE: [gnso-idn-wg] One comment on techno-policy details

["Tina Dam" <tina.dam@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Charles Shaban, February 07, 2007 7:25 AM

> > Bruce Tonkin, Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 1:30 AM +0000 wrote:
> > xn--bruce.example confusingly similar to bruce.example
> 
> I think the most important issue for me to decide if this is 
> confusingly similar or not is not how it appears in the DNS, 
> rather how the browser and whois data and the user what will 
> see in general and even the search engines (when a user 
> search for ASCII bruce this should not show).

Offcourse the problem is that (while it was not the intention at the time of
development of the IDNA protocol) the xn-- version quite often appears in
the browser address. Also, at the current stage the whois protocol can only
display the xn-- version and cannot handle unicode (web could be modified to
include unicode but that is up to the supplier).

Tina