New document set

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Thu Feb 7 04:33:27 CET 2008


thanks, John - especially for the ultra heavy work this past two weeks.

vint


On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

> Hi.
>
> For those who don't track the IETF-Announce list...
>
> New versions of the "issues/rationale" and "tables" document
> have been posted, at
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-idnabis- 
> issues-07.txt
>
> and
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-faltstrom-idnabis- 
> tables-04.txt
>
> respectively.
>
> A new version of the "protocol" document has been submitted for
> posting but seems to be stuck at the moment in a somewhat-broken
> I-D submission system.
>
> These documents respond to some of the list discussions of the
> last several weeks as well as the outputs of a day-long meeting
> held last week (see the Acknowledgments section of "issues" for
> a brief description).   The changes are fairly significant: the
> processing model has been revised (albeit only slightly),
> terminology has been changed, and the concept of "MAYBE"
> categories eliminated.
>
> We did not address the difficulties with Greek in this pass,
> partially because it appeared to be important to get the model
> stabilized as a foundation for moving forward.  However, the
> major issue with the characters that have been discussed is one
> of backward compatibility with IDNA2003.  Because an
> incompatible change in which a character is treated differently
> between the two versions could be very confusing and costly, it
> is not clear how one would best proceed even if there were
> consensus on what should be done in terms of the characters
> themselves: compatibility and, in particular, avoiding having
> the same string interpreted into two separate A-labels, is a
> very strong argument.
>
>    john
>
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