Re: [idn] Requirements I-D

[RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>]

At 11:07 18.05.2000 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
% The character repertoire that is allowed in IDN is exactly that of ISO 10646
% at the time we finish IDN. There is a single case-mapping table, a single
% canonicalization table, and so on, at that point.

At 09:07 19-05-00 , Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
 > this requires that the time we finish IDN is significantly far out into 
the future,
 > since ISO has so far not come to agreement on a single case-mapping table.

Or that we finish IDN quickly and use the case-mapping/canonicalisation rules
already defined by UNICODE, in the absence of an ISO standard on that 
topic... :-)

I would rather use ISO standards, where they exist, but if ISO has left a gap
and isn't making expeditious progress, then we ought not limit ourselves to 
ISO.

Ran
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