I can sympathies with the potential idn homographs problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack This is a well-known problem since 2005 tracing back to http://james.seng.sg/2005/03/17/idn-parody-on-verisigncom/ And I would be happy to work with Evan on this. I cannot, however, understand the issues/complains about translation. Why would someone who don't understand Chinese knows that "手机应用商店.cn" means mobileappstore.com? For that matter, how would a Chinese knows "手机应用商店.cn" translate to mobileappstore.com? The fact is they don't. 手机应用商店.cn could likely be translate to handphoneusageshop.cn or that mobileappstore.com could be translated to 移动软件商店.com. -James Seng On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
2009/12/29 Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Deafening silence.
Hi Joly,
We're all volunteers here. Some have been tied up doing other things over the last week or so. Some of us have even been involved in ICANN-related stuff in other fields.
You're as much a part of the solution as anyone here. If we all just stood back and waited for things to be done by someone else, we'd be getting exactly the response you're suggesting. Much of what we have been able to accomplish have been the work of individuals who have taken initiative.
This is indeed an important issue, as as part of At-Large it's up to us -- you as much as me or any other subscriber to this email list -- to raise this up the food chain, come up with a specific plan and then assemble appropriate resources to execute.
Even if ICANN itself does not see the need to alert existing registrants regarding confusion and possible scams arising out of the growth of IDNs, At-Large can do so itself. But I think we can indeed make the case that ICANN itself bears responsibility here.
I'll put it on the agenda for the next NARALO meeting; let's start to figure out what to do about it, and who amongst us will take the lead(s)...
Are you in?
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