High-level changes from IDNA2003 in the "current work"

Kenneth Whistler kenw at sybase.com
Sat Mar 8 01:02:36 CET 2008


>
> > d) Change the way that the protocol specifies which characters are allowed 
> > in labels from "humans decide what the table of codepoints contains" to 
> > "decision about codepoints are based on Unicode properties plus a small 
> > exclusion list created by humans"
> 
> And with three categories (ALWAYS, MAYBE, NEVER) not just two
> (allowed/disallowed).

Actually this has already moved on. draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-05.txt
is now using:

PROTOCOL VALID (PVALID)
CONTEXTUAL RULE REQUIRED (CONTEXT)
DISALLOWED
UNASSIGNED

--Ken



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