Re: [idn] Fast nameprep vs. slow nameprep

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

At/Ā 21:22 2001-01-27 +0100, Patrik Fältström you wrote/vous écriviez:
>At 19.57 +0000 01-01-27, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>>I'm explicitly assuming that we _won't_ allow names needing nameprep in
>>configuration files. Bad names disappear as soon as they leave the
>>keyboard. That's fast nameprep. The changes are isolated inside the
>>keyboard interface.
>>
>>You're implicitly assuming that we _will_ allow names needing nameprep
>>in configuration files. That's slow nameprep. It's horribly expensive.
>>Hundreds of programs will need to learn about nameprep.
>
>No, you misunderstand me. We talk about exactly the same thing. We need 
>something between the keyboard and the config file which do the nameprep, 
>so never non-nameprepped things end up in configuration files.

well, we hope so, but reality will probably be not that perfect.

Marc.


>That's the whole idea with IDNA. Do nameprep as "close" to the keyboard as 
>possible (and the reverse when displaying).
>
>   paf
>


Marc Blanchet
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