At 11:28 PM +0000 2/6/02, D. J. Bernstein wrote: >The question remains: Will an Alpha Online organization be allowed to >register qol.com, with q changed to a lowercase alpha?
If you have a question for ICANN, you should address it to ICANN. Asking a question like this in the IETF is pretty useless. >The question is whether case insensitivity will---beyond imposing huge >software costs and creating huge new opportunities for fraud---prevent >legitimate users from registering perfectly reasonable domain names. If the case-matching table we have would impose "huge" software costs, what will the software costs be for a table that will probably be an order of magnitude larger? That is a rhetorical question, of course; correctly making a list of look-alike characters is essentially impossible. But I am interested in how much bigger than "huge" your proposal would cost. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
