Remider: BIDI inter-label tests in -02
Harald Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Fri Sep 5 11:15:51 CEST 2008
For all those of you who care about the bidi interlabel issue, the
following text is in -02:
o The BIDI test MAY return failure if the BIDI rule is not satisfied
by the label following the label that contains AL, AN or R in the
domain name. For all the reasons given above, it may be
impossible to know the following label, but there seems no or
negative value to allowing the BIDI test to succeed if the
following label is known. [[POSSIBLY CONTROVERSIAL]]
In the example Alireza gave, this would mean that the bidi test is
allowed to fail on the <ALEF>.3.com domain name, but won't fail on the
3.<ALEF>.com domain name - which would at least make sure the document
gives guidance on the decision on which of the two names is going to be
considered "valid" by whatever registry-specific or application-specific
logic people implement to solve the problem elsewhere.
(As a personal preference, I would prefer to make it a SHOULD, or even a
"MUST if the following label is known by the BIDI test" - but that did
not seem to be the WG's consensus in Dublin, so that's not what the text
says).
This editor needs WG direction on whether to either remove this bullet,
reword this bullet, or remove the [[POSSIBLY CONTROVERSIAL]] tag.
Harald
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