IANA actions and tables document

Kenneth Whistler kenw at sybase.com
Wed Dec 10 21:29:37 CET 2008


Patrik said:

> 
> Here is a proposal of what to do.
> 
> 1) IANA is to keep registries of the following sections of the tables  
> document:
> 
> 1.1) 2.6.  Exceptions (F)
> 
> 1.2) 2.7.  BackwardCompatible (G)
> 
> 1.3) Appendix A. Contextual rules
> 
> 1.4) Appendix B. Non-normative table of derived property value
> 
> 2) Changes
> 
> 2.1) Changes to 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 above require IETF action

I disagree. Changes to 1.1 and 1.3 should require IETF action,
but as Mark tried to explain, if you don't make 1.2 part
of the automatic process, all that happens is that you end
up potentially introducing *instability* into IDN's between
Unicode versions. That is the opposite of what the intent of Section
2.7 is for.

--Ken

> 
> 2.2) Changes to 1.4 is happening automatically when new version of  
> Unicode is updated, with the help of an appointed expert.




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