Am 20.07.2011 18:27, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:31:37PM +0200, Florian Zeitz wrote: >> Am 20.07.2011 17:16, schrieb Joe Hildebrand: >>> Perhaps "no more big tables maintained by the IETF" would resonate better? >>> >> Did the IETF itself ever maintain one? >> There is still the "PRECIS Derived Property Value Registry" mandated by >> section 9.1 to be maintained by the IANA, which (as I understand it) is >> basicaly the "table containing the result of the classification" that I >> mentioned. > > All stringprep processing was based on a lookup table. In theory, IDNA2008 > and PRECIS are based on an algorithm. Yes, there are tables at iana.org, but > those are not supposed to be normative. Granted, you still have big tables in > Unicode, but not separate tables at iana.org in addition to the base tables > of Unicode properties. > So, algorith-wise we're switching from a bunch of big custom tables to a huge table maintained by someone else. For implementers caring about code/executable size that's probably about the same. >From a specification/standards point of view I see the merit/your point.
BTW what the word for how when you mentioning two things focus always goes to the one you cared less about? ;) _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
