[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi-01.txt]

Some of you may have missed this one in the stream of just-before-IETF 
publications....
Not as well worked through as I'd hoped to, but some updates have been 
incorporated based on my work with the Unicode BIDI algorithm.

                    Harald

From: Some of you may have missed this one in the stream of just-before-IETF publications.... Not as well worked through as I'd hoped to, but some updates have been incorporated based on my work with the Unicode BIDI algorithm. Harald <Internet-Drafts <at> ietf.org>
Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi-01.txt
Date: 2007-07-12 20:15:02 GMT

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.

	Title		: An IDNA problem in right-to-left scripts
	Author(s)	: H. Alvestrand, C. Karp

IDN office hours?

Where can I get detailed information about IDN office hours?

Regards,

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-- 
Yoshiro YONEYA <yone <at> jprs.co.jp>

IDNA opportunities for discussion at IETF Chicago

Apart from the opportunity to chat in the hallways, we've assigned a couple 
of timeslots in a small meeting room, so that you know where to catch some 
of us....

MONDAY 13:00 to 14:00
THURSDAY 15:00 to 16:00

The room is Private Dining Room 4, on the 3rd floor of the Palmer House 
Hilton, and apparently requires some patience to find. Read the signs 
carefully.

                  Harald

Re: IDN office hours?

The remaining office hours are in Private Dining Room 4, on Thursday from 15:00 
to 16:00 in the IETF conference hotel in Chicago.

                - Chris

Yoshiro YONEYA wrote on 7/23/07 23:40 +0900:

> Where can I get detailed information about IDN office hours?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yoshiro YONEYA <yone <at> jprs.co.jp>
>
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> Idna-update <at> alvestrand.no
> http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update
>

idna-bis and 'ß'

In the current IDNA environment, the 'ß' character (latin small
letter sharp s) is mapped to the all-Latin string "ss".  Therefore,
no traces of that character can be found in zone files or
registration databases; however, references to domain names (even
all-ASCII ones) can be written in that fashion, and presented on
business cards, in printed material, and in IRIs.

I understand that the current state of idna-bis would lead to
treating 'ß' as a "usual" character, causing a different encoding of
relevant input strings.  Taking that step in idna-bis would cause
existing references written with the 'ß' character (and possibly
resolving to all-ASCII domain names) to break.

As a cure, the current mapping behavior should be preserved as an
exception.

Regards,
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Thomas Roessler   <roessler <at> does-not-exist.org>