I-D Action: draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.txt

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Internationalized Resource Identifiers Working Group of the IETF.

Title : Guidelines for Internationalized Resource Identifiers with Bi- directional Characters (Bidi IRIs)
Author(s) : Martin J. Duerst
Larry Masinter
Adil Allawi
Filename : draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 2012-10-20

Abstract:
This specification gives guidelines for selection, use, and
presentation of International Resource Identifiers (IRIs) which
include characters with inherent right-to-left (rtl) writing
direction.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines

There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03

A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03


Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/

[Martin J. Dürst]

Dear IRI WG,

With Larry's help, I have produced another version of
draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines.

Rather than looking at the ASCII-only versions, please look at one of
the following versions, which now have non-ASCII characters:

http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2012/pub/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.html
http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.pdf
http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2012/pub/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.utf8.txt

The diff you should look at is the following:
http://tools.ietf.org//rfcdiff?url1=draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-02.txt&url2=http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp/2012/pub/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.utf8.txt
(you may have to set the encoding to UTF-8 by hand).

This shows that one of the main changes is adding non-ASCII texts, in
particular in examples. Please carefully check them. I also have allowed
NSM (non-spacing marks) at the end of components. As Cary Karp and
Harald Alvestrand have shown in RFC 5893, this is important for Yiddish
and other languages. Also, in terms of bidi, it's actually non-brainer.

As usual, any and all comments welcome!

Regards, Martin.


P.S.: One of my students, Shunsuke Oshima, is working hard on checking
the various conditions for character combinations in bidi components.
This is an extension of Harald's work for IDN labels. We hope that we
can soon present the conclusions of this work.

Post by i***@ietf.org
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Internationalized Resource Identifiers Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Guidelines for Internationalized Resource Identifiers with Bi- directional Characters (Bidi IRIs)
Author(s) : Martin J. Duerst
Larry Masinter
Adil Allawi
Filename : draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 2012-10-20
This specification gives guidelines for selection, use, and
presentation of International Resource Identifiers (IRIs) which
include characters with inherent right-to-left (rtl) writing
direction.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-03
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/