Consensus Call Tranche 6 (Character Conversions)

Eric Brunner-Williams ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Fri Oct 17 16:45:04 CEST 2008


I'm going to check on 6.c for Cree (Carrier, Old High Siksika, etc). 
Response by Monday or Tuesday.

Vint Cerf wrote:
> Polling window closes at end of the day, October 20th (US Eastern Time)
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> Place your reply here: [YES or NO]
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> COMMENTS:
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> Procedure:
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> There are several decisions that the working group will need to make 
> to confirm consensus.  I will send a series of proposals over the next 
> two weeks requesting YES or NO positions on each within a 4 day 
> window. If NO is the response, a reason for that position needs to be 
> stated. If there is a clear consensus based on responses or in the 
> absence of a consensus against each proposal, it will be assumed that 
> the proposal is acceptable to the Working Group.
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> Parenthesized symbols (e.g., "(R.1)") after the items are references 
> to the issues lists where additional explanations can be found, as 
> sent by John Klensin as body parts "idnabis-protocol-issues-rev3" and 
> "idnabis-rationale-issues-03" on a message titled 'Issues lists and 
> the "preprocessing" topic'  to the working group on 18 August 
> (http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2008-August/002537.html)
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> CONSENSUS STATEMENT:
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> (6) Conversion, validation, and related issues.
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> (6.a) The discussion of Unicode conversions in Section 5.2 of
> Protocol-05 is satisfactory.   (P.7)
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> (6.b) The discussion of A-label validation in Section 5.4 of
> Protocol is satisfactory, even though it leaves considerable
> flexibility to implementation decisions.  (P.8)
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> (6.c) Labels are not permitted to start with combining marks.
> (P.13)
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