Re: [idn] Nameprep & Uniprep

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

- i called it stringprep when we (Paul and I) first discuss it, but anyway.
- it is sure that this stringprep work is outside of the idn charter. it 
will be forwarded to the i18n ietf community (mailing list to be found 
later (there is some works on this these days)) and to the idn wg for 
information. but work and discussion on the generalized case will be done 
outside of the idn wg.
- only work related to idn is in the idn charter.

Marc.

At/À 10:48 2001-08-09 -0400, Edmon you wrote/vous écriviez:
>The Uniprep issue Paul brought up during the wg meeting I think is very 
>interesting and personally, I have thought that there should be something 
>like this all along.  Anyway, these are my thoughts:
>
>Uniprep - Unicode Identifier Preparations
>Nameprep - Domain Name Preparations
>
>Uniprep will be a looser specification for general Unicode Identifiers.
>
>Nameprep will be include mandatory compliance with Uniprep and then on top 
>of it will include some or all of the following:
>- additional mandatory preparations specifically for domain names (might 
>not be required)
>- Optional elements for zone operators
>     - TS Conversion
>     - Jpchar
>     - Hangulchar
>     - others...
>
>In other words, most of the existing Nameprep might be moved to Uniprep, 
>while Nameprep becomes an architectural document for prepping domain names 
>which references to Uniprep and the other language specific mappings, plus 
>possibly some additional preparations specifically for domain names.
>
>Does this make sense?
>
>Edmon
>
>PS. perhaps Uniprep might better be discussed outside of the IDN wg...?...