A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Working Group of the IETF. Title : Stringprep Revision and PRECIS Problem Statement Author(s) : Marc Blanchet Andrew Sullivan Filename : draft-ietf-precis-problem-statement-09.txt Pages : 29 Date : 2013-01-22 Abstract: If a protocol expects to compare two strings and is prepared only for those strings to be ASCII, then using Unicode codepoints in those strings requires they be prepared somehow. Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (here called IDNA2003) defined and used Stringprep and Nameprep. Other protocols subsequently defined Stringprep profiles. A new approach different from Stringprep and Nameprep is used for a revision of IDNA2003 (called IDNA2008). Other Stringprep profiles need to be similarly updated or a replacement of Stringprep needs to be designed. This document outlines the issues to be faced by those designing a Stringprep replacement. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-problem-statement There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-precis-problem-statement-09 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-precis-problem-statement-09 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt