[UA-discuss] More from Ram Mohan on ICANN's further commitment to Universal Acceptance

[John Levine]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, Tex wrote:
> Although this thread addresses the structural difficulties of multiple 
> domains serving one organization, the other issue is the difficulty of 
> users verifying that these domains belong to the same owner.

This is another very hard problem, one that the IETF tried and failed to 
address in the DBOUND working group.

> So is this thread really about: Having IDNs make sense as singular domains, but when does it make sense or not make sense to have multiple domains (IDN or otherwise)?

Chanelling Asmus to some degree, identifying the same owner is the same 
problem regardless of what scripts the domain names might be in.  The 
best one can do now is green bar TLS certificates.

Again, this is something that we might note as an issue, not something we 
should or can try to fix.

Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
Standcore LLC