Re: [precis] I-D Action: draft-ietf-precis-framework-02.txt

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 12 March 2012 19:57 UTC

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Marc and I have updated the document to track changes in the problem
statement. We have also started working on the codepoint table, but it
is incomplete at this time (we will endeavor to do so in the next few
weeks).

On 3/12/12 1:53 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title           : PRECIS Framework: Handling Internationalized Strings in Protocols
> 	Author(s)       : Peter Saint-Andre
>                           Marc Blanchet
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-precis-framework-02.txt
> 	Pages           : 31
> 	Date            : 2012-03-12
> 
>    Application protocols using Unicode code points in protocol strings
>    need to prepare such strings in order to perform comparison
>    operations (e.g., for purposes of authentication or authorization).
>    This document defines a framework enabling application protocols to
>    use various classes of strings in a way that depends on the
>    properties of Unicode code points.  A specification using this
>    framework can either directly use the base string classes or can
>    subclass the base string classes as needed.  This framework uses an
>    approach similar to the revised internationalized domain names in
>    applications (IDNA) technology (RFC 5890, RFC 5891, RFC 5892, RFC
>    5893, RFC 5894) and thus adheres to the high-level design goals
>    described in RFC 4690, albeit for application technologies other than
>    the Domain Name System (DNS).  This document obsoletes the previous
>    framework, named Stringprep, as defined in RFC 3454.
> 
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