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[Ltru] [psg.com #967] address homograph issues in security considerations



Hi -

> Comment
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg00540.html
> reads:
> "39. 4. An important security consideration is homographs. It is
> certainly possible to include part of text in a foreign language which
> look printed as in another language or having a different meaning or
> printing (phishing). Concerns are also the double "-" which is
> specifically used by the IANA code "xn"."
>
> language issue, rather than tagging,
> see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg00628.html

I think we're close to rejecting this one.

Randy, ltru co-chair

Technical comment:
Perhaps this one might be accomodated by including an explicit statement
about how the repertoire for creating language tags makes homographs a
non-issue (at least in a well-designed font) for the tags themselves.




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