Re: Internationalization

Alan DeKok <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:54:21 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.forces
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) Whenever Strings are used for correlating information across LFBs, 
> exact match is required (no equivalence checks are required of either 
> the CE or the FE for this purpose.)

  Yes.  This makes implementation and interoperation much easier.

> 4) Any entity that is displaying or using a stored string is 
> responsible for verifying its correctness.

  Yes.  If you don't need to look at the string, you don't care if
it's invalid...

> 5) Specific LFB Class definitions may restrict the string contents in 
> any way needed for their usage.  (For example, if the string must 
> contain a DNS name, etc.)

  Yes.

> Does this spec need to cover issues of subsetting and representation 
> selection?

  I believe so.

  Alan DeKok.