+1<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM, YAO Jiankang <<a href="mailto:yaojk@cnnic.cn" target="_blank">yaojk@cnnic.cn</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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From: "Patrik Fältström" <<a href="mailto:patrik@frobbit.se" target="_blank">patrik@frobbit.se</a>><br>
To: "Shawn Steele" <<a href="mailto:Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com</a>><br>
Cc: <<a href="mailto:idna-update@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">idna-update@alvestrand.no</a>>; "John C Klensin" <<a href="mailto:klensin@jck.com" target="_blank">klensin@jck.com</a>>; "Mark Davis" <<a href="mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org" target="_blank">mark.davis@icu-project.org</a>><br>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:23 AM<br>
Subject: Re: Changing the xn-- prefix<br>
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</div><div>> On 25 mar 2008, at 00.13, Shawn Steele wrote:<br>
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</div><div>>> I reread your original mail, and in particular I don't want to get<br>
>> bogged down in the debate of details while trying to set the<br>
>> guidelines, but I'd like to try for "A prefix change MUST be<br>
>> avoided" (removing the condition). If that's going to cause too<br>
>> much randomization, then I'd back down, but the repercussions of<br>
>> changing the prefix are huge.<br>
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</div><div>> I am personally in favor of text in the charter that say "The prefix<br>
> xn-- MUST NOT be changed." where MUST NOT is defined according to the<br>
> IETF definition in RFC 2119 (<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt" target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt</a>).<br>
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> This put a constrain on the changes the wg is allowed to do to<br>
> IDNA200X (not large so that the prefix has to change) -- at least not<br>
> without rechartering.<br>
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> Patrik<br>
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