[UA-discuss] Fw: Re: IDN Implementation Guidelines [RE: Re : And now about phishing...]

Andrew Sullivan ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
Sun Apr 23 20:36:27 UTC 2017


On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:49:20PM +0000, nalini.elkins at insidethestack.com wrote:
> Here is an attempt:
> 
> Homograph: a domain name that has characters that are visually indistinguishable (I am intentionally leaving out the font issues)
> 
> Resembler: a domain name that can be easily visually confused for another well-known domain
> 

I think that Unicode calls these "confusables", but some of my
discussion with UTC members makes me think that they regard them all
as more or less the same thing.  

> From talking to various organizations, "Resemblers" are very definitely a concern.   Whether this should be a policy from ICANN, someone 
> else, or left to independent software vendors ala NaliniResemblerAndHomographFinder (tm), is an interesting question.
>

Well, we do already have running code for this, because we don't seem
to think that app1e.com requires anything except the ability of the
trademark holder to take enforcement action.  I don't get why these
additional cases are supposed to be different.

> One of my guys is working in the LatinGeneration panel if that is what you are talking about.  So far, I believe they are at the TLD level.

And that, of course, is where they will stop.  ICANN is capable of
making rules about the root zone, but it cannot set policies for the
zones below -- that's up to the operators of those zones.

Best regards,

A

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