Who does what (Re: [idn] San Diego Meeting Notes)

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 17:19 23/01/2001 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>The protocol design team did not volunteer to do the work. The 
>Applications Area Directors have said they are willing to take the work on 
>in the Apps area. Obviously, anyone from this WG would be invited to help.

I think this working group should be the one that reviews the proposal for 
what is loosely termed "the IDN protocol" (IDNA or something very like it) 
before sending it to IETF-wide Last Call.

The work of specifying how (and if) SMTP, NNTP, SNMP and so on and so forth 
make special efforts to deal with the IDN-ized DNS names is obviously a 
task for the relevant working groups, most of which are in the Applications 
area.

I would like to encourage the authors of the IDNA document to update that 
document to be consistent with the design team report and submit it to the 
working group as a proposal for this WG's final output.


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