Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Sat Feb 11 01:16:36 UTC 2012


Randy Bush wrote:

>> My $0.02 on this issue is if the message is rich text I hover over the link
>> and see where it actually sends me.
> 
> idn has made this unsafe

I pointed it out at IETF Munich in 1997 that with an example of:

	MICROSOFT.COM

where 'C' of MICROSOFT is actually a Cyrillic character.

But, people insisted working on useless IDN.

						Masataka Ohta




More information about the NANOG mailing list