Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Randy Bush wrote:

> > My $0.02 on this issue is if the message is rich text I hover over the link
> > and see where it actually sends me.
>
> idn has made this unsafe

I pointed it out at IETF Munich in 1997 that with an example of:

        MICROSOFT.COM

where 'C' of MICROSOFT is actually a Cyrillic character.

But, people insisted working on useless IDN.

                                                Masataka Ohta