mappings-01 and the general procedure

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Sun Jul 12 23:03:27 CEST 2009


this point might be elaborated by recognizing that IDNA2008 IS  
different from IDNA2003 and that mapping is one of the differences. If  
similarity to IDNA2003 is a useful metric, then the outlined mapping  
might be done in a different order.

v

On Jul 12, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 9:37 AM -0700 7/12/09, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>> Although mappings-01 clearly states that "an appliction[sp] might  
>> want
>> to implement" mappings that are more compatible with IDNA2003  
>> instead,
>> I wonder whether implementors will figure out that the order of the
>> above steps is somewhat different from that of IDNA2003, and that  
>> some
>> strings would be mapped differently.
>
> I'm not sure how to say that better than "instead". Suggested wording?
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