comments on Definitions -05

John C Klensin klensin at jck.com
Sun Dec 21 18:37:53 CET 2008



--On Sunday, 21 December, 2008 08:46 -0800 Erik van der Poel
<erikv at google.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>
> wrote:
>> draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-05.txt
>> section 2.3.1.6
>> Figure 1 really helps me and is a great reference - I hope
>> others find that to be true as well.
> 
> It is a great diagram. But I don't understand how "abc--def"
> can be considered an example of a broken IDN. It doesn't have
> the two dashes in positions 3 and 4.

Typo that proves I'm not good at either ASCII art or trying to
proofread my own stuff of that nature.   Should have been
"ab--cdef"; will be fixed in -06.

Vint gets the credit for suggesting that a diagram would be
helpful.

    john



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