RE: [idn] Fw: Results of BALLOT on Five Canonical Mapping Errors

["Kent Karlsson" <kentk@md.chalmers.se>]

Soobok Lee:
> Thanks. I welcome Option A. This is the right decision!
> 
> I hope to see Unicode 4.0 NFC also has
>  corrected version of hangul jamo processing. My concern was
>  that such false mappings become too heavily deployed and established
>  to be corrected sometime later, due to critical use in IDN 
> identifiers. 
>  But, Today, UTC decision opened the  right way for correction.
>  I fullheartedly appreciate for their honest efforts around this.
> 
> Then, what would be done on Stringprep ? Will it follow
> future Unicode 4.0 ? Of course, it will take some time for authors 
> to give the answer. So, I won't prompt them today... :-)

Since IDNs have not yet been deployed, there is still a VERY SMALL
window of opportunity to fix this for IDNs.  Once deployed, it will
be much harder to fix this for IDNs, if at all possible.

	/Kent Karlsson

> Soobok Lee