IETF Use of The Unicode Standard
Paul Hoffman - Internet Mail Consortium
| Intended Audience: |
Manager, Software Engineer, Systems Analyst |
| Session Level: |
Intermediate |
In the past year, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has done
much more work in internationalizing their protocols. This has, in
turn, caused the IETF to start looking more carefully at which work
it thinks should come from the IETF itself and which work from other
standards organizations it can reuse. In the latter case, the IETF
has looked primarily at ISO and the Unicode Consortium.
Issues that the IETF have encountered with referencing the Unicode
Standard and other work from the Unicode Consortium include:
- Names of Unicode documents that will be stable for 25 years
- Where the Unicode Standard and ISO 10646 really are or are not identical
- Maturity of Unicode work other than the character repertoire, such
as normalization and collation
- Public perception of informational Unicode Consortium work, such as
the mapping tables
This talk gives a very unofficial overview of the state of Unicode in
the IETF work, describes protocols which use Unicode, and lists some
of the areas in the IETF which are considering Unicode work in new
and revised protocols.
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