Re: RFC5280 update for IDNA2008

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The draft doesn't mention preprocessing of IDNs at all, just mentions still
>> RFC3490 (known as IDNA 2003).
>> This doesn't clarify anything, just changes the wording...
>> At it's current state, it is useless (for me).
>
> Yep - I agree.  And any effort that replace IDNA2003-references with
> IDNA2008 will break catastrophically in the real world since IDNA2008
> needs pre-processing to be useful.

Please bring that up to the IETF discussions. As it is now the
recommendation of the precis WG guys is to replace the IDNA2003 with
IDNA2008 references, claiming it is sufficiently clear.

regards,
Nikos