At 9:15 PM -0800 10/29/01, Yves Arrouye wrote: >I think that at the end of the day, while we agree that adding more code >points to Unicode will break some applications that use a Nameprep released >before the code points were assigned,
We don't agree here. Following the rules in stringprep, no application will be broken by adding new code points. We (or, more accurately, Patrik F�ltstr�m and Mark Davis) specifically designed it that way. Applications taking queries should look at characters that they think are unassigned and pass them in the query. Nor will new code points "break" name servers. A name server that is told to store a name that has what it thinks is an unassigned code point will simply say "no". Nothing will break. In order to get it to say "yes", you update the table of unassigned characters to the newer, now-smaller table. I heartily request that people read this section of the stringprep draft and, if you find places where we can make it clearer, by all means let me know soon. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
