Re: [idn] ietf london idn wg meeting minutes

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

Morning Dan,

> Does any of you who were at the meeting have any comments on
> what happened related to IDN outside the session?

Hmm. Broad question. Could you be more specific?

> In the context of nameprep some talk about canonicalisation.

I don't think the reference is to CNAMEs.

>> [Patrik's comment, the general apps requirement (IMO under-specified)
>> and the idn requirement (IMO over-specified), harmonized.]
>
> Is DNS going to use the standard IETF way of handling UCS or a special
> type? Nameprep as it is defined to day is not fit to be used for
> other places except matching of "host names".

This was the subject of some jack-in-the-box back-and-forth to the mic on
my part. There is the "uniprep" problem, and layered on top that is the
"nameprep" problem.

In Marc's notes this was captured as "unichar" and the note about the tscconv
and similar range-specific drafts.

>                      ... Should we move the UDNS and other protocol
> changing drafts over to DNSEXT and leave the non-DNS-protocol IDNA here?

Erik Nordmark asked me to copy our eventual (sorry, I've got provreg, whois,
some related work a bunch of icann stuff, and a registry to take "live" to do
also) utf draft to this WG. 

We've set up a utf list, implementors welcome, just drop me a line.

Eric