Hello everyone,

I am seeking input from the community as we start to wrap up our investigation on open-source software in Java and Python. I am copying John L and Marc B, as I am aware they might have ideas on this matter, but this is a call to all experts.

Question:

When we consider libraries directly related to UA within the Java context, is it correct to say that these are the most relevant ones?

icu4j, commons-validator, libidn (deprecated, for older software only)

Here we exclude considerations such as whether a popular set of libraries like Guava can handle IDNs (which I think is usually handled by the InternetDomainName class, which needs a ToASCII transformation before it can process them properly. Marc B's tests show 14 working test cases out of 18, but I dunno what under configuration).

If those are not the only very relevant libraries, what others should be considered?

Best regards,

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Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]
ICANN GNSO Councilor