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? ;)
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