IDNA2008: concerns about inconsistent mappings, and german sharp s

[Tina Dam]

I am adding this to a list of informational matters to the registries coming from ICANN. It will be with reference to the RFC, but I hope it helps to receive the relevant information in more than one way.

Tina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John C Klensin
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:21 AM
> To: Lisa Dusseault; Vint Cerf
> Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no; Markus Scherer
> Subject: Re: IDNA2008: concerns about inconsistent mappings, and german
> sharp s
>
>
>
> --On Thursday, 11 December, 2008 16:05 -0800 Lisa Dusseault
> <lisa.dusseault at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This conclusion came from the  "Tranche 8" outcome, right?
> > Based on your summary, we still need to provide the advice for
> > registries around that.  I don't know how obvious that can be
> > made when somebody is looking at the new rules for Eszett, but
> > it might help readers figure out that what the standard can do
> > is limited, and what issues have to be dealt with by
> > registries.
>
> Lisa,
>
> There is a first cut at exactly that advice in
> draft-ietf-idnabis-rationale-05.  So far, there have been no
> comments from the WG on that text.  I've tuned it slightly for
> better readability in the working draft for -06, but the text is
> not substantively different.  I hope to get -06 posted today or
> tomorrow (it was slightly delayed because I thought it was more
> important to get the version of defs with the consolidated
> Security Considerations material up first).  If people have
> addition suggestions, they could made -06 if they got to the
> list soon and received general support.
>
>     john
>
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