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IDN Charter
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: IDN Charter
- From: James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:56:38 +0800
- Delivery-date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:57:55 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Dear all,
I recieve a feedback from Erik on the IDN charter. IESG and IAB has some
serious concern on the charter and suggested the following modification.
The main modification is an addition of a paragraph:
"A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current
use and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to
continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain names."
If you have any concern, please raise them now.
If everything is okay, IESG and IAB will proceed with this charter and
finalised the WG.
-James Seng
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Internationalized Domain Names (idn)
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Chair(s):
James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
Erik Nordmark <nordmark@eng.sun.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Erik Nordmark <nordmark@eng.sun.com>
Technical Advisor(s):
John Klensin <klensin@mci.net>
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
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Description of Working Group:
The goal of the group is to investigate and specify the requirements for
internationalized access to domain names.
The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing
this and what methods are feasible given the technical impact they will
have on the use of such names by humans as well as application programs,
as well as the impact on other users and administrators of the domain
name system.
A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current
use and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to
continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain names.
The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should
administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.
The Action Item(s) for the Working Group are
1. An Informational RFC specifying the requirements for providing
Internationalized access to domain names. The document
should provide guidance for development solutions to this problem,
taking localized (e.g. writing order) and related operational issues
into consideration.
2. An Informational RFC or RFC's documenting the various proposals
and Implementations of Internationalization (i18n) of Domain Names.
The document(s) should also provide a technical evaluation of the
proposals by the Working Group.
Goals and Milestones:
Feb 00 First draft of the requirements document
Mar 00 First draft of the proposal document(s)
Mar 00 Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide
May 00 Second version of the requirement document
May 00 Second version of proposal document(s)
Jun 00 IETF presentation and wg last call
Jul 00 Requirements and proposal(s) sent to IESG for publication as
Informational