RE: <postalInfo> element in contact management

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Burbidge [mailto:robert.burbidge@poptel.coop]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:39 AM
> To: Ietf-Provreg (E-mail)
> Subject: <postalInfo> element in contact management
> 
> 
> Source :draft-ietf-provreg-epp-contact-04.txt
> 
> Quote from the <contact:info> command page 11
>   ... 
>   One or two <contact:postalInfo> elements that contain postal address
>   information.  Two elements are provided so that address information
>   can be provided in both internationalized and localized 
> forms.  If an
>   internationalized form is provided, it MUST be listed first and
>   element content MUST be represented in a subset of UTF-8 that can be
>   represented in the 7-bit US-ASCII character set.  If a 
> localized form
>   is provided, element content MAY be represented in 
> unrestricted UTF-8.
>   ...
> 
> If two <contact:postalInfo> elements are provided the above 
> paragraph makes
> it clear which one is the internationalized form and which is 
> the localized
> form. However, if only one <contact:postalInfo> element is 
> supplied, is it
> understood to be internationalized or localized?

That depends on the characters used.  If characters outside the ASCII range
are used, you have something that's localized.  ASCII only ->
internationalized.  This might be more clear if we add an attribute to the
<postalInfo> element; at least it would allow one to decide without having
to examine all of the data directly.

Disclaimer: again, we're still waiting for IESG feedback on the last call.
I can't change anything easily at this point, though I will queue this idea
for discussion with the IESG when they get back to us with comments.

-Scott-