Re: [idn] Nameprep & Uniprep

["Edmon" <edmon@neteka.com>]

From: "Marc Blanchet" <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>
> - 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.

This is fine and great.  Then do we want to revisit the Nameprep document to
change it into an architecture doc that would reference String/Uniprep
(personally I like the name uniprep more...)?  I think this only makes sense
as we know that there would be a universal preping mechanism.

> >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...?...
>