I-D Action:draft-ietf-idnabis-mappings-00.txt

[Paul Hoffman]

I'm glad that we have a document to work from, but this document seems upside-down. The long, stuffy "architectural principles" should be an appendix, and it should be clearly labelled as "non-normative" and/or "informational". There is no way that this WG will agree on such architectural principles except by attrition (which we are getting good at, unfortunately).

Similarly, putting the actual algorithm as an appendix just seems wrong.

On a technical level, the algorithm is wrong in that there are characters that are legal in IDNAbis that will not make it through the algorithm. We *need* to come to agreement on the mapping of those, and we need to do so sooner rather than later.