From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 01:52:24 CDT
Clive D W Feather <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Can I propose a compromise, which might also address other issues ?
> * All names must be invariant in NFKC.
> * We put in a NOTE that there is insufficient experience in this area,
> and implementers should be aware that a future version of this
> document might change it to NFC.
> * We allow agents to normalize names to NFC.
> * We *forbid* injection, serving, and relay agents to apply any other
> change to names.
> * We say that posting agents SHOULD NOT (or Ought Not) apply any other
> change to names.
> * We add "uses compatibility characters" to the list of things that
> could be warned against but should be disableable if necessary.
> This effectively puts us in an intermediate position: no compatibility
> characters allowed, but implementers strongly warned not to assume that
> as an eternal truth.
> Can both Russ and Charles, in particular, live with that ?
With the addition that I don't think serving or relay agents should be
allowed to change *anything* about the names, even canonicalize to NFC,
I think that sounds okay.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>