Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #967] addresshomographissuesinsecurityconside rations

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:57:28 -0700

+1

Eliminating mixed ALPHA/DIGIT in individual subtags is a _fine_ idea.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]]On
> Behalf Of Addison Phillips
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:18 PM
> To: Martin Duerst; Randy Presuhn; [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #967]
> addresshomographissuesinsecurityconsiderations
> 
> 
> The simplest possibility would eliminate all of this 
> (pointless) text: we can eliminate the homograph problem 
> altogether in a very simple manner. Require subtags to be all 
> ALPHA or all DIGIT. This actually affects only registered 
> primary language subtags and registered variants and *no* 
> extant subtags.
> 
> Addison
> 
> Addison P. Phillips
> Globalization Architect, Quest Software
> Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
> 
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Duerst [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > Sent: 2005?5?23? 18:07
> > To: Addison Phillips; Randy Presuhn; [email-masked]
> > Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #967]
> > addresshomographissuesinsecurityconsiderations
> > 
> > At 07:29 05/05/24, Addison Phillips wrote:
> >  >Since this is a rule that is unlikely to come into play 
> often (if ever),
> >  >making it a MUST is hardly a hardship.
> > 
> > Well, yes and no. Will somebody be able to provide some kind of
> > software to IANA for checking this? Doing this kind of check by
> > hand is extremely tedious, and the fact that the problem occurs
> > very rarely makes it easy to just leave the check out.
> > 
> > Regards,    Martin.
> > 
> >  >In fact, it is nice and crisp (and
> >  >applies to a very small set of subtags---exactly none as 
> of draft-03).
> 
> 
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