Re: [idn] (bias) summary of reordering discussion

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 2001-10-24 00.32 +0800 "James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
wrote:

> 6. Reordering is never ending task - Lee's countered that so is
> Nameprep.

I have not read all details in this long thread of reordering, but, I have
a strong feeling about some principal issues:

o Nameprep mappings is defined by UTC, not IETF.
  -> I am nervous when we in IETF talk about these things
o Versioning in Nameprep is stable for assigned codepoints, as
  the mappings for an assigned codepoint is never changed.
  -> My reading of the reordering is that some reordering rules
     might be added later for assigned codepoints
o Better compression is a good thing, but I don't see reordering
  gaining so much that it is worth it (see bullets above)

So, to conclude, I also oppose reordering.

For more details on versioning, and my view on it, see separate response to
Soobok Lee.

              paf