Wohoo! Microsoft IE 7 will have IDN support (via M.H. Blog) E 7.0 will feature international domain name (IDN) support; transparent Portable Network Graphics (PNG) support, which will allow for the display of overlayed images in the browser; and new functionality that will simplify printing from inside IE 7.0, partner sources said. The new browser […]
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JET Open Letter to Microsoft
— Original in PDF format — Mr. Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Cc: Mr. Bill Gates Chairman and Chief Software Architect Microsoft Corporation Cc: Mr. Michel Suignard Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Dear Mr. Ballmer, We, members of the JET (Joint Engineering Team), send this open […]
April Fool RFCs
While normal human beings celebrate April Fools by making publishing their transparent desktop picture on national newspaper, geeks publish standards like UTF-9/UTF-18 and Morality requirements for Routing. Look, geeks can be funny too! (ie, if you can understand the joke :-) Anyway, IETF has a traditional to publish April Fool RFCs and I always watch […]
IDN Parody on verisign.com
Guilllaume Rischard setup a parody on verisign.com using the IDN spoofing trick. He managed to get one registrar to register verisign.com with a cyrillic S (U+0405) (ie xn--veriign-mog.com :-) Also check out Neustar website, the competitor to Verisign. This actually started in #joiito a couple of weeks ago after the Eric published the spoofing attack […]
Don’t disable IDN
I couldn’t put it better so I won’t. From Paul Hoffman: Reading the ensuing Slashdot and other coverage gave me the feeling that nearly everyone talking was from the US, UK, or Australia, the three countries that have the least native need for IDNs. It also became clear that few of the folks in the […]
IDN and homographs spoofing
There is a published spoofing attack using homographs IDN. By using a Cyrillic SMALL LETTER A (U+430), Securnia is able to pretend to be http://www.paypal.com/. Actually this is well-documented in RFC 3490 under the Security Consideration: To help prevent confusion between characters that are visually similar, it is suggested that implementations provide visual indications where […]
Chinese IDN in the news
[Update 21st Dec: This article is also syndicated to CircleID] News.com published a well-research article on the Chinese Domain Names by Winston Chai. This approach works fine in the English-savvy world. However, for non-English speakers, they could be faced with the unenviable task of rote-learning numerical IP addresses, which is highly improbable, or the English […]
Proposal to implement IDN TLD
During the breakfast pre-panel discussion, a few of us were sitting around and discussing IDN Top Level Domains (TLDs). Normally, such debates goes no where but surprisingly, we actually got some agreement this time! The first thing we note is that there is no perfect solution. Every proposals has some problems – it does not […]
Politeness on Panel
Why is it that we have very interesting discussion openly during dinner or breakfast, but put everyone on a panel on stage, everyone become so quiet and so polite? This happened at my IDN Workshop yesterday. I wasn’t able to join the pre-panel dinner but I was told everyone have a lot of interesting debates. […]
Arrived in Cape Town
Arrived in Cape Town last night. I think they overbooked the hotel so they give me a president suite1 which is pretty nice but pointless for me. Never figure out why anyone need such a big room. Anyway, I am here for the ICANN meeting. Particularly, I am helping to moderate a panel for the […]