At 03:35 AM 2/6/2002 -0800, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote: >Why this proposal cannot be taken into account by IETF IDN WG?
Elisabeth, This entire topic, and all its proposals, have very much been taken into account by the IDN working group. They have been taken into account at the cost of many months of delay, although this topic is actually outside the scope of the working group. The topic calls for an algorithm that equates portions of different scripts. This goes beyond the model of equating upper/lower case WITHIN a script. In fact, this topic is an open research question with no generally accepted practise. So even if the topic were within scope the solution would, at best, be very, very risky. The risk is exacerbated by the fact that this technical approach does not scale well. As soon as an approach like the TC/SC proposal is added, then we must find mappings for many, many other multi-script equivalences. That effort will probably take years. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464
