Re: [I18nrp] Last Call: <draft-faltstrom-unicode11-05.txt> (IDNA2008 and Unicode 11.0.0) to Informational RFC

[Asmus Freytag <[e-mail]>]

On 12/4/2018 10:21 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2018, at 10:04, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
>> On 12/4/2018 6:59 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>> This misses my concern. There is an active draft 
>>> (draft-freytag-troublesome-characters) that seems to want to change 
>>> the IANA registry.
>>
>> Where do you get that?
>>
>> The draft in question suggests setting up an additional registry with 
>> information allowing domain name registries to set more restrictive 
>> policies. It says NOTHING about the status of code points under IDNA 
>> 2008.
>
> This is where there is concern. In a few places, 
> draft-faltstrom-unicode11 makes suggestions to registries about their 
> policies. draft-freytag-troublesome-characters does the same, but with 
> different results.

With compatible results. That is, my draft only ever suggests to use 
stricter subsets.

That is always compatible - if it were otherwise, efforts like the Root 
Zone LGRs would somehow be in conflict with IDNA2008.

> If draft-faltstrom-unicode11 is only about which characters are legal 
> for IDNA2008, it should say that explicitly, and say that it is not 
> delving into registry policy. However, I think Patrik actively wants 
> to have his draft suggest registry policies that match IDNS2008.

I read the draft as being about the former.

None of the text passages that you quoted seem to indicate otherwise? If 
you have an example of a text passage, could you cite it here?

A./