Re: [idn] Re: Changes to RACE

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this work group only developing
*requirements* and not taking action on any RACE, nameprep or other
implementation proposals? Is that what you mean by "when this WG is finished"?

Thanks,

Bill Semich

At 10:53 AM 10/19/00 -0700, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>At 9:21 AM +0800 10/18/00, James Seng wrote:
>>Just a quickie note. Any correct implementation of RACE _should_ already
have
>>this feature since if all input streams comes from ROW 0, then there
shouldnt
>>be any RACE transformation.
>
>Sorry, but that's not correct. race-02 did not check for that case. 
>That is why I had to update the draft.
>
>>IMHO, this requirement should be done at the nameprep level, and not the
RACE
>>transformation. Supposing we decided to move away from RACE to something
else
>>(just example sake), we can ensure this behavior is consistent.
>
>We have not decided to move to RACE yet. However, we have not decided 
>to move to nameprep either. Any alternative to RACE, and any 
>alternative to nameprep, should have the test in it. When this WG is 
>finished, we can remove the unnecessary one.
>
>--Paul Hoffman, Director
>--Internet Mail Consortium
>
>