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Re: [idn] Requirements I-D
- To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Requirements I-D
- From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 08:40:00 +0100
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Fri, 19 May 2000 05:41:35 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 11:07 18.05.2000 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
% The character repertoire that is allowed in IDN is exactly that of ISO 10646
% at the time we finish IDN. There is a single case-mapping table, a single
% canonicalization table, and so on, at that point.
At 09:07 19-05-00 , Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> this requires that the time we finish IDN is significantly far out into
the future,
> since ISO has so far not come to agreement on a single case-mapping table.
Or that we finish IDN quickly and use the case-mapping/canonicalisation rules
already defined by UNICODE, in the absence of an ISO standard on that
topic... :-)
I would rather use ISO standards, where they exist, but if ISO has left a gap
and isn't making expeditious progress, then we ought not limit ourselves to
ISO.
Ran
rja@inet.org