Re: FW: UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing, Version 6.1 Released

Ted and Larry,

If the question is really about UTS #46, I'd encourage everyone
relevant to read RFC 5704, substituting IDNA and various Unicode
actions for MPLS and ITU-T as needed.   The point is roughly the
same: the Unicode Consortium decided that a (somewhat
incompatible) "improvement" to IDNA was needed, could not get
consensus for that specification in the IETF, and so went off
and wrote their own.

    john


--On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 16:54 -0800 Ted Hardie
<ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Larry Masinter
> <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
>> Should the IRI spec explicitly follow Unicode updates?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  Are you saying we
> should update this reference in the draft:
> 
>   [UNIV6]    The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard,
> Version               6.0.0 (Mountain View, CA, The Unicode
> Consortium, 2011,               ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6)",
> October 2010.
> 
> to the current 6.1? Or are you suggesting that the draft say
> that reference should be to something that is functionally
> "this thing or its successors"?
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: root@unicode.org [mailto:root@unicode.org] On Behalf Of
>> announcements@unicode.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 4:14 PM
>> To: announcements@unicode.org
>> Subject: UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing,
>> Version 6.1 Released
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mountain View, CA, USA – February 1, 2010 – The new
>> version of Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA
>> Compatibility Processing has been released, updating to
>> Unicode Version 6.1. It adds support for 528 additional
>> characters in internationalized domain names (IDN).
>> 
>> The specification provides two main features for use with the
>> internationalized domain names specification released in
>> August 2010 (IDNA2008):
>> 
>> A comprehensive mapping to reflect user expectations for
>> casing and other variants of domain names. This mapping is
>> allowed by IDNA2008, and follows the same principles as in
>> the previous version of that specification (IDNA2003). It
>> thus provides users consistency between old and new versions.
>> A compatibility mechanism that supports internationalized
>> domain names valid under the IDNA2003 specification and the
>> IDNA2008 specification. This second feature allows browsers,
>> search engines, and other clients to handle both old and new
>> domain names during the transitional period until registries
>> update their rules to follow IDNA2008.
>> 
>> UTS #46 supplies normative data tables that are synchronized
>> with the latest version of the Unicode Standard, allowing
>> implementations to update without recalculation. This new
>> version also provides an "NV8" flag in the data files, making
>> it easier for implementations to disable the compatibility
>> mechanism.
>

Received on Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:44:35 UTC