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3rd December 2010, 11:00 PM
If you are implementing a mapping for an application or operating
system by using exactly the four steps in Section 2, the authors of
this document have a request: please don't. We mean it. Section 2
does not describe a universal mapping algorithm because, as we said,
there is no universally-applicable mapping algorithm.
If you read the material in Section 2 without reading Section 1, go
back and carefully read all of Section 1; in many ways, Section 1 is
more important than Section 2. Further, you can probably think of
user interface considerations that we did not list in Section 1. If
you did read Section 1 but somehow decided that the algorithm in
Section 2 is completely correct for the intended users of your
application or operating system, you are probably not thinking hard
enough about your intended users.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5895
Additional recent technical discussions: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/iucg/current/maillist.html#00187
system by using exactly the four steps in Section 2, the authors of
this document have a request: please don't. We mean it. Section 2
does not describe a universal mapping algorithm because, as we said,
there is no universally-applicable mapping algorithm.
If you read the material in Section 2 without reading Section 1, go
back and carefully read all of Section 1; in many ways, Section 1 is
more important than Section 2. Further, you can probably think of
user interface considerations that we did not list in Section 1. If
you did read Section 1 but somehow decided that the algorithm in
Section 2 is completely correct for the intended users of your
application or operating system, you are probably not thinking hard
enough about your intended users.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5895
Additional recent technical discussions: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/iucg/current/maillist.html#00187