IDNA applications (was: RE: sharp s (Eszett))

[Paul Hoffman]

Following up on my own posting:

At 2:19 PM -0800 3/7/08, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>This goes back to a comment you made earlier today about the way I 
>stated "(a)". I said:
>
>a) Update base character set from Unicode 3.2 to Unicode 5.0 or 5.1
>
>You said:
>
>a) Update base character set from Unicode 3.2 to Unicode version-agnostic
>
>Those two are quite different statements, and the group needs to 
>decide which, if either, it wants to achieve.

Looking at the proposed charter again, it says both (a) and (b).

>These documents
>were tied to Unicode version 3.2 and an update to the current
>version (5.x) is required to accommodate additional scripts.

. . .

>This WG
>is chartered to untie IDNA from specific versions of Unicode using
>algorithms that define validity based on Unicode properties.

We need to clear this up in the charter depending on how the group wants to go.