299927 - Add .museum and .hu to list of TLDs for which IDN is permitted

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Following on from bug 286534, we need to add .museum and .hu to the list of TLDs
for which IDN is permitted. This brings our list in line with Opera's.

I have personally checked the policies of all the currently-whitelisted
registries, plus .museum and .hu, and made a page linking to the relevant policies:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Jungshik: are you able to make a patch for this? I assume it's pretty simple -
just a couple of prefs.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

Attachment: patch (two liner)

yeah, this is simple...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comment on attachment 188597 [details] [diff] [review]
patch (two liner)

Any reason .museum isn't in the alphabetical order?

r=gerv

Gerv

Comment 4

[Jungshik Shin]

Comment on attachment 188597 [details] [diff] [review]
patch (two liner)

asking for a to trunk. this is a simple 2-liner to add two TLDs to the
whitelist.

As for museum's position, I wanted to list ccTLDs and non-ccTLDs separately.
Perhaps, I'll add comments to that effect when landing this patch.

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Comment on attachment 188597 [details] [diff] [review]
patch (two liner)

a=shaver for trunk; please check in ASAP, though you might have missed 1.8b3.

Comment 6

[Marcelo Bastos]

The .br TLD is probably safe too.
The relevant authority, http://registro.br, announced the following policy for
IDNs on May 4,2005. (Before that time, IDN registration wasn't available at all):
- Only characters (accented letters) used in Portuguese would be accepted --
that is, à, á, â, ã, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú, ü, ç and its uppercase versions.
- On applying, the IDN name would be checked for similarity to existing non-IDN
names, by converting accented letters to its corresponding nonaccented letters.
If the non-accented version is already registered by someone else, the domain
registration is refused.

The intent of the restrictions is explicitly to prevent domain spoofing.

This policy is detailed (in Portuguese, though) in the following pages:

IDN announcement:
http://registro.br/anuncios/20050504.html

FAQ section concerning IDNs:
http://registro.br/faq/faq6.html

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

.br approved. However, future requests should come to me by email.

Gerv

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comment on attachment 188597 [details] [diff] [review]
patch (two liner)

This has approval1.8b3+, but missed the boat. Can we have approval1.8b4+? 

Gerv

Comment 9

[Jungshik Shin]

Comment on attachment 188597 [details] [diff] [review]
patch (two liner)

Sorry for the confusion. This was landed a while ago. 

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