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

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 16:24 17/08/2000 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> > At 08:13 16/08/2000 +1000, Frank Ernens wrote:
> > >I believe that all characters specified by the Unicode
> > >standard as compatibility characters should be prohibited.
> >
> > Specifying that compatibility characters MUST NOT be sent on the wire when
> > supporting the "internationalized domain name" service, together with a
> > recommendation that a client SHOULD fold compatibility characters presented
> > to it at the application user interface is a self-consistent position.
>
>Harald,
>
>While I agree with you on that no codepoint should be prevented on the
>wire, I think this thread is discussing nameprep I-D, not the
>requirement I-D. For this, I agreed with Frank.
>
>Things can get a bit confusing here right? :-)

yes!
I was trying not to give an opinion on this thread (which I don't feel 
certain about), but to point out that it's fully compatible with what we've 
been talking about before, and I THINK it's also fully compatible with the 
requirements doc, to outlaw some characters from being used in the service.

         Harald

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