Outcomes and Side Effects (Was: Stop me if I've misunderstood...)

jean-michel bernier de portzamparc jmabdp at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 19:06:22 CEST 2009


Might we first define what mapping means in order to be sure that when
we use the word "mapping" we do not initiate unexpected side effects.

I understand mapping as transcoding at the same layer and resolving as
cross-layer transcoding.

Best
Portzamparc

2009/7/11, Pete Resnick <presnick at qualcomm.com>:
> On 7/11/09 at 11:28 AM -0400, Vint Cerf wrote:
>
>>can we possibly describe the potential side-effects of choices?
>>
>>If we were to follow the basic proposal in mappings-01, could we
>>offer a few concrete examples of choices.
>>
>>For example, suppose a user is currently employing a system that
>>maps according to IDNA2003. What differences would this user
>>experience if his system applies the mappings outlined in mappings
>>-01 instead of IDNA2003?
>>
>>Might we be able to describe other concrete examples?
>
> +1! Thank you Vint.
>
> If every implementation followed what is currently in mappings-01
> (before punycoding you NFC, lowercase, and map wides and narrows),
> what is the outcome for users? What kinds of things that are going to
> be looked up will go to the "wrong" place? How frequent would such
> occurrences be?
>
> pr
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