Re: [idn] draft about Tradition and Simplified ChineseConversion[version01]

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

--On 2001-11-17 20.44 -0500 Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
<brunner@nic-naa.net> wrote:

> I don't buy your reasoning, in either case (guarantees of UTC or JET work
> product immutability), unless nameprep has a dependency relationship on a 
> reference to a table, rather than to the table itself, at the point at
> which the relationship was made.

The algorithm used in nameprep for versioning is based on the fact that UTC
have told us that they will not change the tables for assigned codepoints.

We are _not_ looking behind the curtains or evaluate whether we belive that
statement is true or not. We just wanted that statement.

The same way, the wg need a statement from JET.

The "trust" part is not what I am talking about. That is a problem of IAB
(not some random individual) as representative for external contacts.

If we asked for "trust", then we were to start "looking under the covers"
which you implied we did for JET because of this question from James.

We have not done so with UTC and we are not doing it with JET.

   paf