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(Unverified)Jun 24th 2008 9:14AM

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I almost forgot two other things:

1.) This would be a boon for phishers -- now instead of buying bankofamerica.info and hoping people don't notice, they can send you to www.bankofamerica and hope people don't notice.

2.) I'm strongly against non-latin characters in domain names. Again, think legacy -- you can't find a single web-enabled device that doesn't support latin characters, but you can sure as hell find plenty that don't do Unicode. Think how many of them will break when they try to do a reverse lookup and get high-byte gibberish back as a response. Again, far-reaching unintended consequences.

If you want to add unicode domain names to IPv6, by all means do so. But for the love of God don't go changing the IPv4 spec so drastically! Won't someone *please* think of the embedded devices!

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