The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Unicode code points and IDNA - Unicode 6.0' (draft-faltstrom-5892bis-05.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Applications Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Peter Saint-Andre. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-5892bis/ Technical Summary This document specifies IETF consensus for IDNA derived character properties related to the three code points, existing in Unicode 5.2, that changed property values when version 6.0 was released. Working Group Summary This document has been discussed in both the IDNAbis working group list and the APPSAWG list. Unicode 6.0 changes the GeneralCategory of three code points, which changes their handling according to RFC 5892. This document handles that by allowing those code points to change their IDNA status, rather than making exceptions for them. One point of controversy involved the character U+19DA, which changes its derived property from PVALID to DISALLOWED. Some participants objected, saying that this could cause previously valid names to become invalid, and suggesting that an exception should be made for U+19DA to allow it to remain PVALID. Consensus was that because U+19DA is unlikely to have been used in any names until now (so the chance of harm is very low) and RFC 5892 had a preference for not putting things in the exception list, it is best not to make an exception for this character. Document Quality This document is concise and clear, and is ready for publication. Personnel The Document Shepherd is Jiankang YAO <yaojk@cnnic.cn> The Responsible AD is Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
