Tuning of Defs, Protocol, and Rationale

[Yoshiro YONEYA]

Apologize my delayed response.

Keeping backward compatibility is essential for consistent operation 
and user experiences.  Backward compatibility issues between IDNA2003 
and IDNA2008 is written in several places of rationale document, and I 
think they should be summarized briefly in one place and refer to 
operational and/or application implementation guideline(s) with concrete 
examples.  For example, separator mapping is essential in CJK area.  
Also, such kind of guidelines are useful to keep compatibility between 
various applications compliant with IDNA2008.  At least, CN/JP/KR/TW 
ccTLD engineers believe having such guideline is essential and the 
guideline should be BCP.

-- 
Yoshiro YONEYA <yone at jprs.co.jp>

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:51:47 -0500 John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> During the two weeks since the current versions of
> "Definitions", "Protocol", and "Rationale" were posted, I've
> received and integrated a number of suggestions about changes
> that seemed either editorial or obvious.
> 
> In order that everyone be looking at the same documents at the
> meeting, I don't intend to try to post new versions early
> Monday; these changes will show up after the WG meetings with
> whatever else is incorporated as a result of meeting discussions.
> 
> However, if anyone wants to check on whether their particular
> suggestions have been incorporated, or wants an advance look at
> whether I've messed something up, diffs between the posted
> documents and the working versions are attached.  
> 
> Again, I do not consider any of these changes to be terribly
> significant, even though a few of them resolve problems that
> have been pointed out on-list.  The Change Log entries for the
> three are as follows (obviously, these are subject to revision
> too, possibly even as I catch more problems over the weekend).
> I've removed the TOC listings from the diff files -- they didn't
> contribute much and take up a lot of space.
> 
>     john
> 
> -------------
> 
> Definitions Version -02
>  
>     o  All back pointers to section numbers in Rationale have
> 	   been removed.
>  
>     o  Some definitions clarified.  Added one about string
> 	   order. 
> 
> 
> Protocol Version -07
> 
>     o  Multiple small textual and editorial changes and
> 	   clarifications. 
>  
>     o  Requirement for normalization clarified to apply to all
> 	   cases and conditions for preprocessing further clarified.
> 
> 
> Rationale Version -05
>  
>     o  Many small editorial changes, including changes to
> 	   eliminate the last vestiges of what appeared to be 2119
> 	   language (upper-case MUST, SHOULD, or MAY).
>