Charter, changes in prefixes, and documentation

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Wed Mar 26 06:39:41 CET 2008


works for me too.

On Mar 25, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 10:20 PM -0400 3/25/08, John C Klensin wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, 25 March, 2008 18:24 -0700 Mark Davis
>> <mark.davis at icu-project.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  That works for me. Item (iii) needs fleshing out a bit.
>>>
>>>                 (iii) A change to the basic approach taken in
>>>  the design                team documents.
>>>
>>>  It is clear when a change would violate (i) or (ii) would be,
>>>  but not clear what kind of change would violate (iii).
>>
>> I more or less copied that, with some slight re-wording, from
>> the last version that was posted.   I would welcome narrower
>> language, but am also not sure it is necessary.
>
> Given that a few people expressed confusion on that wording, it  
> seems necessary. How about:
>
> (iii) A change to the approach in the design team documents (a  
> protocol that is independent of Unicode versions, that removes any  
> character mapping in the protocol, and has improvements to the bidi  
> algorithm).
>
> That does not cover all the changes between IDNA2003 and the design  
> team design, (see <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft- 
> hoffman-idna200x-topics-01.txt>), but it covers the high points  
> that could cause a charter refresh.
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