[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] libidn want to be a GNU package

[Simon Josefsson]

FYI, libidn is already part of GNU SASL (under the name libstringprep,
the name is being changed to libidn).  Since it is useful in other
applications too, I want to release separately as well as part of GNU
SASL.  I'm not sure if this requires another evaluation as a GNU
package.  Perhaps it is more work than necessary; I'd be happy to
release it standalone alongside GNU SASL so libidn need not be a GNU
project proper.  OTOH it might be useful to have libidn as part of the
GNU project too, as the standards' libidn implement is likely to
provide internationalization for many network protocols.

address@hidden writes:

> Hi,
>
> The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to
> become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ? 
>
> Submitter: <address@hidden>
> Project Full Name:  Internationalized Domain Names Library
> Project System Name:  libidn
> License:  lgpl
> Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=3603
> Description: Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep/Nameprep, Punycode 
> and IDNA specifications defined by the Internationalized Domain Names IETF 
> working group to implement internationalized domain names.  It is licensed 
> under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
>
> The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation (with Unicode 3.2 
> NFKC normalization, table mapping of characters, and the Bidirectional 
> Character handling), and currently two Stringprep profiles; Nameprep (for 
> IDN) and Kerberos5.  The library also implements Punycode, and the low-level 
> IDNA operations.  A high-level
> API for handling internationalized domain names is being developed.
>
> The Stringprep API consists of two main functions, one for converting data 
> from the system's native representation into UTF-8, and one function to 
> perform the Stringprep processing.  Each stringprep profile has a 
> corresponding CPP macro.  Adding a new Stringprep for your application is 
> straightforward. The Punycode API consists of one encoding function and one 
> decoding function.  The IDNA API consists of the ToASCII and ToUnicode 
> functions.
>
> The library is currently used by forthcoming SASL and Kerberos libraries to 
> process user names and passwords before they are input to cryptographic 
> operations.  It is also used by experimental code for domain name related 
> purposes.
>
> Libidn is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20 Unix 
> platforms (including Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, and Tru64) and Windows.
>
> The project page of the library is available at:
> http://www.josefsson.org/libstringprep/
>
> For more information see:
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-stringprep-07.txt
> http://www.i-d-n.net/
>
>
>  -- the Savannah admin