It appears that Russ Housley <[email protected]> said: > Searches whose results might include RFCs should return accurate > results and support appropriate Unicode string matching behaviors. > >RFC 7997 does not have a similar discussion. Rather, RFC 7997 talks >about "searches against RFC indexes and database tables". I do not >recall any discussion about expanding the scope to include searches >within RFC documents. Maybe it is my memory, but I want to make >sure there is consensus around this topic.
That seems to me to open multiple cans of worms. If we want to include old RFCs, some use obsolete encodings, some are only in Postscript, and otherwise not easy to search reliably. For modern RFCs, I don't know what "appropriate Unicode string matching" means and I don't want to try to define it here. Character normalization? Language specific case folding? LTR vs RTL strings? I think it would be interesting at some point to think about how to address this issue, but not in this document and not now. R's, John -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
