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

[Patrik Fältström]

On 7 mar 2008, at 22.19, 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.

...and what we do in IDNA200x is the latter. As we change to an  
algorithm based mechanism, new versions of Unicode will  
"automatically" be able to be adopted by the IDNA200x standard.

    Patrik