[ire] CSV and RFC4180

[Gustavo Lozano <[e-mail]>]

Colleagues,

I find the proposal of Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Objects Mapping
interesting and I think that both approaches CSV or XML for escrow data
have its advantages and disadvantages.

The only RFC related to CSV that I have found is RFC4180.

This text from RFC4180 concerns me:
TEXTDATA =  %x20-21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-7E

The escrow deposit will contain non US-ASCII data.

How can we be sure that the libraries/database tools used to implement the
export/import of CSV will adequately work with non US-ASCII data? There
are different platforms and architectures used by different players
(EBEROs, registry operators and data escrow agents) that will be upgraded
and will evolve during time.

In this regard I feel more confortable with XML because Unicode support
have been present since the beginning.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Gustavo Lozano