Updated to reflect today's discussions. /psa
On 8/1/12 10:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Preparation and Comparison of > Internationalized Strings Working Group of the IETF. > > Title : PRECIS Framework: Preparation and Comparison of > Internationalized Strings in Application Protocols > Author(s) : Peter Saint-Andre > Marc Blanchet > Filename : draft-ietf-precis-framework-05.txt > Pages : 65 > Date : 2012-08-01 > > Abstract: > Application protocols using Unicode code points in protocol strings > need to prepare such strings in order to perform comparison > operations (e.g., for purposes of authentication or authorization). > This document defines a framework enabling application protocols to > handle various classes of strings in a way that depends on the > properties of Unicode code points and that is agile with respect to > versions of Unicode; as a result, this framework provides a more > sustainable approach to the handling of internationalized strings > than the previous framework, known as Stringprep (RFC 3454). A > specification that reuses this framework can either directly use the > base string classes or subclass the base string classes as needed. > This framework takes an approach similar to the revised > internationalized domain names in applications (IDNA) technology (RFC > 5890, RFC 5891, RFC 5892, RFC 5893, RFC 5894) and thus adheres to the > high-level design goals described in RFC 4690, albeit for application > technologies other than the Domain Name System (DNS). This document > obsoletes RFC 3454. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-framework > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-precis-framework-05 > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-precis-framework-05 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > precis mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis > _______________________________________________ precis mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis
