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[idn] new idn charter
Hi,
the wg co-chairs and the ADs agreed to make a few modifications to the
charter in order to formally move from a "requirements and compare" wg to a
"requirements, compare and design" working group. We will be in a position
to accept protocol proposals and forward to standard track. The new
proposed charter below has been discussed but is by no means accepted yet
by the IESG.
We are requesting input by the wg. After a hopefully concensus, we will be
forwarding to the IESG for approval. May I ask for comments before this
thursday 8 june 23h00 GMT?
Regards, Marc.
PS. current charter is at: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html
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Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
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+idn@jck.com)
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion:idn@ops.ietf.org
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Archive: ftp://ops.ietf.org/pub/lists/idn*
Description of Working Group:
The goal of the group is to specify the requirements for internationalized
access to domain names and to specify a standards track protocol based on
the requirements.
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 name.
The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should
administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.
The group must identify consequences to the current deployed DNS
infrastructure, the protocols and the applications as well as transition
scenarios, where applicable.
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.
3. A standards track specification on access to internationalized domain
names including specifying any transition issues.
Goals and Milestones:
Feb 00 First draft of the requirements document
Mar 00 Discussion at IETF-Adelaide
May 00 Second version of the requirement document
Jun 00 Call for proposals
Jul 00 Final discussion on the requirement document
Aug 00 Req document wg last call
Sep 00 First draft of comparaison document
Oct 00 Discussions on various proposals
Dec 00 Final discussion of comparaison document
Dec 00 Protocol RFC first draft
Jan 01 Comparaison document wg last call
Mar 01 Protocol RFC second draft
Mar 01 Transition RFC first draft
Jun 01 Protocol RFC wg last call
Jun 01 Transition RFC second draft
Sep 01 Transition RFC wg last call
Marc Blanchet
Viagénie inc.
tel: 418-656-9254
http://www.viagenie.qc.ca
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