Re: ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

Yet another thought about this: They (not sure who "they" is) will have
to engage in something of an education campaign to non-Latin-speaking
(ha ha) users to trust these domain names. If you're a Russian or Korean
or Arabic speaker you're not used to seeing domain names in those
languages. 

What is the user experience like for such users? Gadi, how do you switch
between typing Hebrew and English and whatever else you type?

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Larry Seltzer
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:59 AM
To: Dan Kaminsky; der Mouse
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] ICANN Approves Non-Latin Domain Name Characters

> They've been wringing their hands about security for a few years now, 
> around this very issue.  Not saying they've gotten everything right, 
> but I can't imagine the real testing work being done by the actual 
> implementers (OS vendors) without the domains being officialized like
> this.

They have a test root servers that I know they've used to test DNSSEC
and other such things. I assume they've been using them for this. How
much testing can they really do in such an environment?

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


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