[Ietf-not43] l10n/i18n issues

[Hollenbeck, Scott]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Newton [mailto:anewton@ecotroph.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:38 PM
> To: Eric A. Hall
> Cc: Rick Wesson; ietf-not43@lists.verisignlabs.com
> Subject: Re: [Ietf-not43] l10n/i18n issues
> 
> 
> Eric A. Hall wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not saying that these aren't livable costs, just 
> raising the point.
> 
> It's my guess that this will actually be a corner case and 
> not the norm. 
>   However, I don't think it is right to stipulate 7bit ASCII 
> as a must, 
> as this seems like a policy decision.

To reword what Rick suggested a bit, we're strongly recommending UTF-8 in
EPP though other character sets are possible with XML as long as they are
identified appropriately.  There is a subset of UTF-8 that can be
represented in ASCII.  We're allowing clients to specify one or two
name/address forms: a "localized" form (which can contain any UTF-8
characters that make sense in the local policy context) and an
"internationalized" form (that can contain only the subset of UTF-8 that can
be represented in ASCII in the hope of it being internationally readable).
One or the other or both can be provided.

-Scott-