On 2013/10/05 12:07, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Dear colleagues,
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:46:03PM +0900, Yoshiro YONEYA wrote:
The WGLC will end on Wednesday, Sep 11th.
On the principle of "better late than never", I at last got to this
document. Many apologies for taking so long.
I was just starting reading the document yesterday, so same applies here.
There was one largish issue that troubled me. The discussion in 9.5
basically talks about the risks from enormous character repertoires,
and I wondered whether people won't start asking for a way to
negotiate locale or something similar as a mechanism for narrowing the
choices. Certainly, something along these lines has been requested
(not to say "vehemently demanded") over and over for IDNA. In IDNA
it's completely impractical, owing to caches, the need for
compatibility with existing DNS stuff, and so on. It strikes me as
pretty impractical here, too, but I thought I'd raise it if only so we
can put it down. (I'm also aware that it's pretty late in the game to
suggest this. Why it only struck me today I don't know. I have a dim
memory of having discussed this once before, but I didn't find
anything in the archive.)
I'm not yet at 9.5, but I definitely agree with Andrew. Let's make sure
we put a very big nail through that coffin (or whatever the correct
idiom is).
The paragraph in section 3.1 starting, "Although members of the
community discussed the possibility of defining other PRECIS string
classes " read oddly to me.
Same here, but for different reasons. The WG is publishing a document
with user name and password profiles at (roughly, at least?) the same
time as this one. Why are we saying "two is enough" but then doing more?
Maybe the user name/password ones aren't classes, or whatever, but a
slight rewording would go a long way here to help avoid the impression
that the WG is at odds with itself.
Something else occurred to me yesterday: Is PRECIS dealing with
context-dependent characters (ZERO WIDTH JOINER/ZERO WIDTH NON
JOINER,...)? IDNA2008 deals with them, but while a lot of other stuff is
carefully noted in the introduction and in 3.1, this is totally missing.
Either it should be added in these sections, or it should be added in
PRECIS itself.
Regards, Martin.
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