Re: [xmpp] AD review: draft-ietf-xmpp-address-04

[Jehan Pagès <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

2010/10/5 Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>:
> On 10/5/10 8:44 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote:
>> Hum... but if at the end, each protocol/technology does that (folding
>> back into their own spec), at the beginning, everyone will have the
>> same spec at first; but with time, this "consistent" approach to
>> internationalized name might derive in every different spec, hence
>> become "not so consistent" in the end. I think that's the point of
>> having a single RFC for all so that each technologies simply have to
>> reference it (instead of copying it then modifying it).
>
> I didn't say there would be a single RFC for internationalized strings
> in SASL, iSCSI, LDAP, XMPP, etc. The PRECIS WG is trying to define a
> common approach or framework that each technology can use by writing
> their own specifications. See here:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-blanchet-precis-problem-statement
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-blanchet-precis-framework
>
> My input to that thought process was:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-xmpp-i18n-01
>

Ok I see better.

>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>>
>>
>> It does, thanks. Still for someone wishing to implement right now
>> something from this, what would you advise then? Should I focus on
>> IDNA2003 only for now?
>
> Are you writing your own IDNA parser? Typically people use libidn.
>

I don't really know what I am doing exactly. For now I was rather
beginning to study what should be done or not, what exists already,
etc. So yes I'll have a look at libidn then. :-)
Thanks.

Jehan