[idn] Re: Fwd: Unicode letter ballot

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> It is not the stability I'm worried about here, but security issues.
>
> Can you please elaborate on the security issues? 

See my message to Adam M. Costello.

> I believe they are irrelevant in presence of compatibility
> characters, since compatibility characters are never part of a IDN
> label (i.e. the ToUnicode operation never produces them).

Yes, you are right.  I was thinking of when changes like the one
proposed here applies to any character, that doesn't happen to be a
compatibility character.  Hm.  Perhaps I was unclear about that, if so
I'm sorry for my confusion.