632161 - add Syrian IDN ccTLD souria (xn--ogbpf8fl) to whitelist

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: Domain Lists, defect)

Description

[Mustafa AL Rifaee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

When we put an Arabic IDN domain name under our new IDN ccTLD (xn--ogbpf8fl)
it is displayed using the A-Label (Latin) representation not the native Arabic
characters. This can be solved locally by modifying the about:config file. We
hope that the Syrian IDN ccTLD (xn--ogbpf8fl) is included as part of the Network
Whitelist. We are using the standard Code Points for the Arabic Language
available at http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/sa_ar_1.0.html
thanks


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see bug 607938

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Mustafa, do you work for STE ?

Comment 3

[Mustafa AL Rifaee]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mustafa, do you work for STE ?
Hello Mr.Hermans;
I worked in STE previously, but now i am working in National Agency for Network Services (NANS), NANS is a government entity established in 2009 by a legislative law called Digital Signature and Network Service Law (Law  number 4 dated 25/2/ 2009) which has been approved by  the Syrian Parliament as a step toward governmental reform of the Telecom and Internet Sector in Syria. This law assigned to NANS many responsibilities and functions related to data network services such as:
•	To manage the Syrian ccTLDs (including the IDN ccTLD) 
•	To define policies and rules for domains registration.
and we recently get the delegation for (.SY and IDN) from IANA (http://www.iana.org/root-whois/xn--ogbpf8fl.htm)
(http://www.iana.org/root-whois/sy.htm)
 Best Regards
Mustafa

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

I think Wikipedia needs to be updated, it still mentions STE as the registry :-)

Comment 5

[Jothan Frakes]

Mustafa is the listed technical contact in the IANA database for .<Souria>
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/xn--ogbpf8fl.html

With respect to .<Souria>  Being whitelisted, I see no reasons not to.

The registration rules are located here:
http://nans.gov.sy/index.php/services/sy-domain/29-dotsouria

Registration Rules forbid confusingly similar string registration (as best I can tell with the aid of my handy Google Translate)

Mustafa, the reporter, has identified the standard code points are here:
http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/sa_ar_1.0.html

Codepoints are identical to Saudi Arabia's, which are already white-listed

Reccomendation:  Approve addition

Comment 6

[Jothan Frakes]

Creating patch to include this in the whitelist

Comment 7

[Jothan Frakes]

Changing to assigned and assigning it to me

Comment 8

[Jothan Frakes]

Attachment: Adds .<Souria> to IDN Whitelist in all.js

Please see comment thread today.  

I have verified that the reporter is officially from the appropriate and authorized registry, that there are rules in the t&c for the registration of names, and that they use the identical codepoints for a TLD that is currently whitelisted.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4b08b4adbc4d

Gerv

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment on attachment 534501 [details] [diff] [review]
Adds .<Souria> to IDN Whitelist in all.js

Approved for 1.9.2.18 and 1.9.1.20, a=dveditz for release-drivers
Approved for the mozilla2.0 repository, a=dveditz for release-drivers

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-2.0/rev/eaad7ab0e3e7
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/329fcdf90560
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/156e06beaf4e

Gerv

Comment 12

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Verified in source for 1.9.2.18.