604820 - Add dot-iran to IDN whitelist

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

Dot-Iran is not approved by ICANN and have passed the string evaluation process. (http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-15oct10-en.htm)

The are two A-labels assign to dot-iran:
 * xn--mgba3a4f16a ایران
 * xn--mgba3a4fra ايران

Source: http://icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-i-en.htm#ir

And http://www.nic.ir/IDN describes the policy.

Can we have this on Firefox 4.0 release, please?

Comment 1

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(In reply to comment #0)
> Dot-Iran is not approved by ICANN and have passed the string evaluation
> process. (http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-15oct10-en.htm)

Is it safe to assume s/not/now/ here?

Comment 2

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Attachment: Patch (v1)

Comment 3

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

Ehsan, of course, and thanks.

Comment 4

[IRNIC Technical Team]

And this is the official request from IRNIC, the registry of dot-iran tld, to add dot-iran to the IDN whitelist.

Thanks in advance,
-Technical Team
IRNIC

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Happy with the request and the policy. Only problem with the patch is that the entries are supposed to be in alphabetical order. But I can fix that on checkin.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Not blocking, but we'll take the patch.

Comment 7

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Attachment: For check-in

Comment 8

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http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/422f6f9b048d

Comment 9

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http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/efdbf8cd90c1
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/330f0bd7693c