Re: [idn] Update Charter revision 2

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 12:34 PM +0900 10/25/01, Martin Duerst wrote:
>At 22:00 01/10/24 +0800, James Seng/Personal wrote:
>
>>  > - Nameprep is now divided into framework (stringprep) and profile
>>>    (nameprep).  Is stringprep scope of this WG?  I think it is
>>>    eventually yes at this moment but I'm not sure, so please clarify
>>>    position of stringprep.
>>
>>Good question. As far as it stand now, only draft-ietf-idn-nameprep is
>>part of IDN work. draft-hoffman-stringprep is not. How it goes will
>>depends on the author.
>>
>>I suspect only nameprep will stay within IDN group and stringprep may
>>remains generic or go to other wg, which may not be formed yet.
>
>Hello James,
>
>I have raised this issue, too. The title of the 'nameprep' draft
>is now "Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Host Names",
>and this is an accurate reflection of it's content. 'nameprep'
>therefore depends on 'stringprep'. If we want to go to Proposed
>Standard with 'nameprep', we cannot have 'stringprep' still as
>an I-D. Given your schedule for 'nameprep', it seems impossible
>for a new WG to be formed and to take up and finish 'stringprep'
>in time. Also, it seems quite dangerous to leave 'stringprep'
>to it's authors without at least close coordination with this
>WG. Leaving this at suspicions is not good enough. It shouldn't
>be difficult to improve on this given that the authors of
>stringprep are one of the co-chairs in this group and an
>active participant of this group.
>
>Regards,   Martin.

Martin is right: we cannot finish nameprep until stringprep is 
finished. If the WG chairs don't want it as part of the WG, that's 
fine, but it is going to go through the same IETF last call as 
nameprep will. There is no reason not to have it in this WG.

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