[idn] Re: Legacy charset conversion in draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt

[Simon Josefsson <simon+idn@josefsson.org>]

"Adam M. Costello" <idn.amc+0@nicemice.net.RemoveThisWord> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <simon+idn@josefsson.org> wrote:
>
>> >     When systems use local character sets other than ASCII
>> >     and Unicode, this specification leaves the transcoding
>> >     problem up to the application.  If applications implement
>> >     different transcoding rules, they could interpret the same name
>> >     differently and contact different servers.  This problem is not
>> >     solved by security protocols like TLS that do not take local
>> >     character sets into account.
>>
>> Before the last sentence it could be useful to also add something
>> like: "Furthermore, if a single application uses one mapping table
>> in one version, and a subsequent version of the application uses
>> a modified mapping table, different interpretations of the same
>> internationalized text string may be possible even within the same
>> application which has security implications."
>
> How about simply changing "applications" to "different applications (or
> different versions of one application)"?

Yes, that would be clearer.  What do the editors think about adopting
these changes?