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

["Patrik Fältström " <[e-mail]>]

On 4 Dec 2018, at 2:21, John C Klensin wrote:

> In addition, I personally read "suggests IDNA2008 standard is to follow the Unicode Standard and not update RFC 5892 [RFC5892] or any other IDNA2008 RFCs" as effectively eliminating the
> version-by-version review process called for in Section 5.1 of RFC 5892 (and followed by Patrik and yourself to produce RFC 6452) if favor of uncritically accepting changes in The Unicode Standard.  Insofar as that reading is correct, this is
> necessarily a Standards Track document that updates RFC 5892 and makes what I believe is a very substantive change to it.

The goal is to say in this document that it is suggested for changes up until and including Unicode 11.0.0 IETF accept the changes in Unicode Standard.

What to do with future versions is something IETF have to evaluate for every version that is released.

The process I have used for each version of Unicode is the following:

1. Unicode releases beta versions of Unicode

2. I calculate the derived property values and do a diff

3. I report the result to IAB and whatever I feel is the most recent IDNA-related mailing list in the IETF

3.1. If there are no incompatible changes, I say so and simply suggest I will report to IANA "to move on" -- and if I do not hear anything within say two weeks, I simply do so

3.2. If there are incompatible changes, I say so to and suggest an I-D that include my and others review of the situation


Step 3.2. have so far resulted in two things:

- RFC 6452
- This document, where I basically suggest same action as in RFC 6452

> I am told, although I wasn't able to find it quickly, that there is now a notation from the AD in the file that this document must be reviewed by the
> directorate that BOF decided should be created (and with which the AD(s) agreed).

See <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-unicode11/history/>

2018-12-03 05 Alexey Melnikov This document needs to be reviewed by the to-be-created-soon Internationalization Directorate.

   Patrik