On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:33:14AM +0100, john daw <taliskermoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 169 lines which said: > what impact the IDNA 2008 policy will have It's actually IDNA 2010 since the RFC were all issued this year. > ondomain name registrant's who have a domain that does not fall > underthe policy's permissible code-points, particularly symbol-based > domainnames. Do note they are probably uncommon, at least at the second-level since most (probably all) of the TLD never allowed them. > what in practice, will itmean if someone types in e.g. ?.com in > their browser under IDNA 2008? Browser policy. But typically, users will be presented with an error message. > Will IDNA 2008 not allow the domain registrant to satisfy a user's > queryby forwarding them on to a different domain name? Yes, browsers can (not MUST, CAN) perform mapping from what the user typed to a legal domain name. <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/> may be an interesting reading for you. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf