Re: [idn] Working group focus -- and progress

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
Cc: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Working group focus -- and progress 


> > The second statement is the more important point:  It is the reason that
> > this entire topic is entirely OUT OF SCOPE for this working group.
> ...
> > There is a rumor that some people actually want to use the results of this
> > working group, and that they want to use the results AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
> 
> ...regardless of whether or not those results work well.
> 
> yes, I am quite sure that you are correct.


> 
> it's also clear that any DNS-compatible solution will have significant 
> problems with transcription (either written to typed or audible to typed)
> in some languages.
> 
> addressing this may be out of scope for this WG, but that doesn't mean
> that IDNs can be made to work well without addressing it.
> 
> and yet this WG clearly lacks sufficient expertise to solve this problem 
> no matter what the WG charter says.

I agree. Moreover,  even if we have the expertise,
most problems cannot be solved by mechanical processing 
like nameprep which is designed to be a "utility" for
input convenience and matching of IDN labels, 
_NOT_ to be the complete solution to ambiguities 
introduced by i18n characters from various scripts.

> 
> it appears that the best this WG can do is 
> 
> - identify known limitations with its approach
> 
> - state any known workarounds for those limitations
> 
> - define or suggest some mechanism (if any can be found)
>   for the IDN resolution infrastructure to be upgraded
>   at a later date to better solve the transcription problems.
> 

I agree. I am preparing the first  (maybe incomplete) BCP for IDN. 
I hope someone would make GPLed zone checking tools
based on that.. :-)

soobok

> Keith
>