Re: [idn] Adding "optional" characters in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> Jonathan Rosenne pointed out that we might need another class of
> characters for processing. Hebrew vowels are optional characters that
> some people enter, although most don't. There are probably a few such
> characters in other written scripts as well. We have a few choices:
> 
> a) We can ignore these characters on input (that is, toss them out of
> the input stream).
> 
> b) We can prohibit the characters on input.
> 
> c) We can allow them in names. This would mean that people
> registering names would have to register them with and without the
> characters (possibly in many combinations).

d) we could have IDN servers accept strings with or without Hebrew
vowels, then return records with the "correct" spelling.

somehow having to register multiple spellings of a name doesn't sound
very attractive.  

Keith