Re: [idn] draft about Tradition and Simplified Chinese Conversion[version01]

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <[e-mail]>]

Patrik,

I don't buy your reasoning, in either case (guarantees of UTC or JET work
product immutability), unless nameprep has a dependency relationship on a 
reference to a table, rather than to the table itself, at the point at
which the relationship was made.

Take a look at rfc954, it references the DDN, SRI-NIC, nets 10 and 26, all
as if they are immutable. In spite of the brokenness of the formal external 
reference, the referant, a protocol on port 43 and some data, continue to
exist.

I don't much care if the next big thing sweeps the UTC off into oblivion,
treating them as if they were the ITU in a working group is peculiar, and
doing the same with JET is just as odd. Sweeping the UTC off to oblivion
may take more, or less, than the next big thing ;-), but it is a _liaison_
problem, not a WG problem. Its Scott's problem, not "ours".

Eric