Re: UTS46 "transitional period"

Once the registries (of that support the 4 special characters) have adopted
bundling/blocking policies, then it will be possible for client software to
safely move off of the transitional approach. So it is really dependent on
the registries' behavior. Different clients may have different thresholds
for when to move, depending on their estimation of when enough important
registries have adopted bundling/blocking policies.

> For example, when all Registries *and* all client software have moved to
exclusively support IDNA2008

"All client software" doesn't work, unless you have a coordinate switch
date, which people concluded was impractical.

Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 14:22, Chris Weber <chris_at_lookout.net> wrote:

> Does my understanding of the term "transitional period" in UTS46 sound
> accurate? That being, the "transitional period" is largely (or only?) a
> responsibility of the Registries, during which time the Registries will
> still support existing domain names that were allowed under IDNA2003, but
> not allow registrations of new domain names under the IDNA2003 rules.
> Registries would also guarantee a strategy for "bundling" and "blocking"
> during this time. The transitional period would end when all registries
> only support IDNA2008, and no longer need to guarantee a strategy for
> "bundling" and "blocking".
>
> While client software would implement the strategies defined in UTS46
> during the transitional period, the client software is not in control of
> when this period ends.
>
> Or, does the Unicode Consortium consider that the client software does have
> some control over when this period ends? For example, when all Registries
> *and* all client software have moved to exclusively support IDNA2008, with
> no more support for IDNA2003 or its transitional UTS46 considerations, then
> the transitional period will have ended.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 27 2011 - 18:17:06 CDT