Re: [idn] Requirements I-D

[Mark Davis <markdavis@ispchannel.com>]

I am curious as to the source of the reluctance to refer to the Unicode Standard. After all, if everyone limited themselves to only ISO standards, no reference could be made to ECMA standards, W3C standards, or even, for that matter, Internet standards.

I don't want to clog the list with a subject that some people may feel to be peripheral. If there is something about the Unicode procedures or process that people are uncomfortable with, I'd appreciate responses sent to my address.

Mark

RJ Atkinson wrote:

> 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
> rja@inet.org