RE: [idn] compatibility chars in draft-ietf-idn-nameprep

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 7:19 AM +0300 8/16/00, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
>I think it is more friendly to convert them at entry. But this is no
>contradiction: the user agent converts them, afterwards they are not
>allowed.
>
>  >
>>  At 8:13 AM +1000 8/16/00, Frank Ernens wrote:
>>  >I believe that all characters specified by the Unicode
>>  >standard as compatibility characters should be prohibited.
>  > >(But not all non-compatibility characters should be allowed.)

Just to be clear, this is saying that the user interface can allow 
any input (which is the IETF way of doing things), but it MUST NOT 
pass any character that has a compatibility equivalent to the *input* 
of the nameprep step. Is this what folks are agreeing to?

For reference, I have compiled a list of all characters that have 
compatibility equivalents. The list can be found at 
<http://www.imc.org/compat-table.txt>.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium