On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Right now, RFC 3920 describes the "how" of stringprep (see RFC 3454)
along with the "what" (JIDs), but does not specify exactly who is
responsible for prepping JIDs, when in the communications process JIDs
need to be prepped, and where in XMPP data JIDs need to be prepped.
We need to make this clear in rfc3920bis and rfc3921bis (and perhaps
some XEPs as well).
As a server implementor, I always found it a bit of a headache to
guess when to do IDN stuff.
As far as I can see, this is the best way to proceed, but we'll need
to
find a list consensus before I can make any changes in the text of
rfc3920bis (or other specs).
This seems to go with the XMPP mantra of "simple clients." That is,
let the server worry about it. I would feel a lot better as a server
implementor if the specs were a bit less vague on the IDN strategy,
though.
-- Eric Will
