On 3/2/2010 9:12 AM, John R. Levine wrote: >> in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. >> in practice, there's interoperability testing... > > I'd think more conformance than interop,
The IETF technical community largely lacks the construct of "conformance". Over the years, the influx of telecom folks has introduced it periodically, but it still is absent from formal IETF work. There is a long pragmatic history behind this cultural constant. > since I'd be surprised if there > were any ambiguity about the correct way to encode UTF-8 into punycode. Would you rather be surprised in the middle of critical infrastructure operations or during an interop event? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html
