What rules have been used for the current list of codepoints?

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Fri Dec 15 14:56:56 CET 2006


If we were fortunate enough to come up with algorithms/lists of codepoints
that had the property "this set of rules defines codepoints suitable for
IDNs" I would endorse proposing that such a property be incorporated into
the UNICODE vocabulary.

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-----Original Message-----
From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 4:48 AM
To: idna-update at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: What rules have been used for the current list of codepoints?

At 08:33 +0100 2006-12-15, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>On 14 dec 2006, at 23.49, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>>I thought this was why we had classes. What stops us from having a 
>>>new class that is "suitable for domain names"?
>>
>>Um, "classes"? What are these? Who defines these? Where is this 
>>registry maintained?
>
>UTC do have classes, that is one of the properties we have been 
>discussing all the time.
>For example whether Nd should be included or not.

Those are called "Property Values". Please use that term. 
http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html
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