Could somebody describe a possible 'failure scenario' for the tests? Siavash
IANAE (I am not an expert), but what about, for instance, some code that breaks somewhere because of the hyphen ("-") in the TLD? We had (and some still exists) code that broke because of the length of the TLD, that was assumed to be max. 3, with the exception of .arpa.
Hypothetically, you're right, any of those might have happened if someone deliberately put anti-IDN code into the DNS software. But in reality, I'm sure the people who maintain the small set of packages they checked had already made sure they worked. It was a non-event. Where do we stand on the "too similar" issue? Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.