- From: Cary Karp <ck@culture.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:17:38 +0200
- To: "idna-update@alvestrand.no" <idna-update@alvestrand.no>
- Cc: "PUBLIC-IRI@W3.ORG" <public-iri@w3.org>, "uri@w3.org" <uri@w3.org>, Marcos Sanz <sanz@denic.de>, "www-tag.w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Quoting Gerv: > On 23/08/13 11:19, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: >> 1. The TR46 non-letter support can be dropped in clients once the major >> registries disallow non-IDNA2008 URLs. I say URLs, because the >> registries need to not only disallow them in SLDs (eg http://☃.com), >> they /also/ need to forbid their subregistries from having them in >> Nth-level domains (that is, disallow http://☃.blogspot.ch/ >> <http://blogspot.ch/> = xn--n3h.blogspot.ch >> <http://xn--n3h.blogspot.ch>). > > This is not my area of expertise, but I am not aware of a registry which > attempts to define by contract what their customers may or may not put > into the DNS "below" the domain they have purchased. They don't because they can't; conceivably one level down but certainly not Nth-level. The concept itself is arguably antithetical to one of the fundamental attributes of the DNS but there is no practicable way to implement such a constraint, anyway. As a timeline effect, 1. is identical to never. > The way to make such domains not exist is for them to first not work in > browsers; I'm not sure we can do it the other way around. Right. /Cary
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