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Subject: Re: [xri] GCS Spoofing
Hi Nat, > If we were to ban all the look alikes, I would add Japanese 'ten' as > another candidate for GCS '+' look alike. > Perhaps, character 'soil' is another candidate. Would hiragana 'no' > be a look alike for '@' ? It would not be for a Japanese, but it may be > for other people. And ... banning these characters would defeat the > purpose of having international characters in XRI, because somebody's > name would no more be able to be expressible by XRI. > Ok, let's not go there. I was convinced long ago that we can't ban characters, especially not when they're simply visually similar, but semantically very different. > I agree with William that this "restriction problem" should not be > a part of the spec. I would much rather leave it as the recommendation > for the client applications. As I have written in the previous mail, > it would be rather trivial for the client software to make the real GCS > characters discernable for the user. > I think that is a fairly interesting proposal. Also, we may want to drive home the point that punctuations, spacing, symbols (potentially other categories) characters should be avoided when creating XRI authorities. Client application may want to warn the user of any such character classes that are not explicitly allowed as XRI syntax characters appearing in the authority segment. wil.
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