At 22:48 24/10/2000 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
>Harald Alvestrand writes:
>
> > has anyone taken a look (or want to) on the internet-draft
> > draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-00.txt, to think about whether it is
> > easy/sensible/hard/nonsensical to implement it?
>
>It is quite sensible; the draft can be implemented in ca. two weeks of
>coding. It can be done with good performance with rather small tables:
>2 KB for the prohibit table, 7 KB for the lowercasing table, and a
>similar amount for the composition tables needed for UTR15.
>
>But the draft leaves two questions open:
>
>- Is Han folding (canon-2.3) completely removed from the proposal,
> or is it only postponed until a later draft? I'm noting that a
> different draft says "There are no well-established rules for
> such folding, and some of the proposed folding would be
> locale-specific." - therefore Han folding appears not to be suitable
> for inclusion in such a canonicalization engine.
Definitely completely removed. James Seng's Han folding draft served very
well to illustrate why it should NOT be included.
>- What is the encoding in which internationalized domain names are
> exchanged between DNS servers? UTF-8 or UTF-5?
That is the subject of another draft - the currently favored candidate is
the RACE encoding.
Thanks for your help!
>Bruno
>-
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