Re: [idn] Liason statement from Unicode Consortium

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

I'd prefer we move Stringprep and IDNA to use Unicode 3.2 now than wait
until the next revision.

-rick

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> I have as liason in the IETF with the Unicode Consortium received the
> following text.
>
>      Patrik
>
> The Unicode Consortium welcomes the progression of Stringprep and IDNA to
> last call. The development of those will have a significant impact on the
> majority of the people of the world, for the first time allowing them to
> have domain names in their own languages and scripts.
>
> There is only one issue for the consortium has a strong recommendation. The
> proposals are currently built on Unicode 3.1, since that was the latest
> version available during the initial development of IDNA and Stringprep.
> The consortium recommends that the version of Unicode be upgraded to
> Unicode 3.2, which was released on 2002-03-27 (For more information, see
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr28/.) This makes the first release of the
> standards encompass the broadest set of characters possible. It also means
> that a few small fixes in existing characters (between versions 3.1 and
> 3.2) can be accounted for. This should not delay the progress of the
> standards; the changes to the data tables are relatively minor.
>
> If this request cannot be accomodated, then the version should at least be
> updated to fix Corrigendum #3
> (http://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode_3_1_1_With
> _Corrigendum). This would address the most pressing concern, although not
> expand the character set to the most up-to-date version.
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