RE: [idn] Nameprep-01 released

[Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hoffman / IMC [mailto:phoffman@imc.org]
...
> Greetings again. The new version of the nameprep document can be 
> found at <http://www.i-d-n.net/draft/draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-01.txt> 

The mapping list at the end is nearly unreviewable, since it does
not contain the character names (as comments), just the codes.
Compare Unicode tables, which have character names as comments
(at least).  I don't think it is each revewer's responsability
to produce name comments (or whatever) to be able to review the
document.

The "prohibited character[s] list", list code points, many of
which are *not* characters, but are specifically "not-a-character"s,
or are reserved for UTF-16 ("surrogates"; which are not characters
either).

The "unassigned character[s] list" is quite obviously an
"(as yet) unassigned code points list" (which is hard to review
since no character names can be made available). It also uses
6 hexadecimal digits for the BMP range, which is (will not) be
an approved notation according to Unicode and 10646.

		Kind regards
		/kent k