Re: :Re: Last Call: Preparation of Internationalized Strings ('strin

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles H. Lindsey writes:

> Moreover, since these drafts are so written that they are intended to be
> updated each time a new Unicode Version appears, it would be useful to
> have actual experience of doing that exercise on a draft, rather than on a
> published RFC.

This is interesting -- has the Unicode consortium promised to always
update the CK normalization tables in a forward compatible way?  Since
IDNs will be used to identify hosts for security critical purposes, a
change in the normalization could in theory be exploited to spoof
identities in, e.g., TLS.
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