Mapping and the charter

Paul Hoffman phoffman at imc.org
Fri Feb 20 01:28:31 CET 2009


At 4:00 PM -0500 2/16/09, Vint Cerf wrote:
>We may need to discuss whether some form of standardized
>mapping is needed, possibly to maintain least surprise
>for users accustomed to the behavior of non-IDNA
>domain names (e.g. upper/lower case equivalence
>for lookup purposes).

Having such discussion should be triggering a recharter for the WG. The last section of the charter is quite clear:

>The WG will stop work and recommend that a
>new charter be generated if it concludes that any of the following are
>necessary to meet its goals:
>
>. . .
>  (iii) A change to the basic approach taken in the design team
>documents (Namely: independence from Unicode version and elimination of
>character mapping in the protocol)



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