Updating RFC 5890-5893 (IDNA 2008) to Full Standard

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Fri Nov 9 10:19:35 CET 2012


On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:45:11 +0100, Martin J. Dürst  
<duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:

> On 2012/11/08 13:18, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> I think this should happen sooner or later. However, Anne van Kesteren
>> recently pointed out that the major browsers haven't yet done too much
>> with respect to implementing UTR 46, which I'd guess implies that they
>> haven't yet implemented much of IDNA 2008, either (Anne, can you confirm
>> or clarify?).
>
> By chance, I found the reference that I was referring to again:
> http://annevankesteren.nl/2012/09/idna2008
>
> I also found some mentioning that Opera implemented IDNA2008:
> http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto2.12/networking/
> I haven't tested it, and I don't know what exactly (if anything) Opera  
> is doing for backwards compatibility. (On the above page, IDNA 2003 is  
> still mentioned as supported.) Simon, do you know more? Any feedback  
> from Opera on IDNA 2008?

I asked our developers who implemented this.

[[
Hi Simon!

First of all what we have is not IDNA2008 + UTS46. In general we've  
implemented IDNA2008 + RFC5895 but with few diversions:
- we NEVER prevent DNS lookups,
- all domain names violating IDNA2008 (and some more, listed below) are  
presented in UI in the punnycoded version (rfc3492) only. Those are  
domains that:
	- contain characters classified as INVALID (rfc5892),
	- contain characters classified as CONTEXTJ or CONTEXTO but in wrong  
context (rfc5892),
	- for which BIDI rules are not met (rfc5893),
	- are using characters from 2 or more scripts that should not be used  
together (our own heuristic that e.g. blocks displaying  
http://www.gooɡle.com/ - IDNA2008 allows that one).


/Kajtan
]]

HTH,

> Regards,   Martin.
>
>> Given that browsers are an important part of IDNA users,
>> it might be prudent to wait for some more time and see what issues might
>> come up from that side.
>>
>> (That was also why I asked Marcos about deployment of "ß"; the story was
>> that registries would first deploy these with the respective bundlings
>> or restrictions, and then browsers could move ahead and resolve them
>> directly.)
>>
>> Regards, Martin.
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