06FD and 06FE should be PVALID for Sindhi

John C Klensin klensin at jck.com
Wed Apr 2 02:13:32 CEST 2008



--On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:47 PM -0400 Vint Cerf 
<vint at google.com> wrote:

> most likely we are going to have to be pragmatic. If there is
> linguistic consensus that certain characters should be
> re-labeled as to their category in the UTC system but that
> takes a Unicode release cycle, then we may find ourselves
> adding exceptions to IDN specs in advance of changes to
> Unicode.
>
> This leads to an interesting question about maintenance of the
> exception tables for IDN200X - it sounds like something that
> should end up as an IANA-maintained table. Does that sound
> right?

I think that has been our general assumption.   As usual with 
IANA-maintained tables these days, the key issue is not who 
maintains the table but how the decisions to add or alter 
entries are made.

   john



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