New Public Review Issue: Proposed Update UTR #36 Unicode Security Considerations

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 13:45:23 CST

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    The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review
    and comment. Details are on the following web page:

            http://www.unicode.org/review/

    Review periods for the new item closes on January 28, 2008.

    Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
    Briefly, the new issue is:

    115 Proposed Update to UTR #36 Unicode Security Considerations
    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-6.html

    Changes in this proposed update include:
    * Added explanation of UTF-8 over consumption attack in
            3.1 UTF-8 Exploits
    * Added subsection of 2.8.2 Mapping and Prohibition describing
            the Unicode 5.1 changes in identifiers
    * Added section 3.4 Property and Character Stability

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    Regards,
            Rick McGowan
            Unicode, Inc.

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