Re: [idn] Update Charter revision 2<030701c15c37$e463d8b0$1401000a@jamessonyvaio><20011024124949X.yone@po.ntts.co.jp><4.2.0.58.J.20011025122342.067d7100@localhost>

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 02:38 PM 10/25/2001, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
>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.


In fact, there is every reason TO have it in this working group:

1.  the work has been done here.
2.  no other working group is laying claim to it.
3.  we need the work.
4.  we need it NOW.

People have confused the need to separate a specification into two parts 
with the idea of having the two parts done by different groups.

The problem with the previous combining into one document was not that the 
technical content was a bad idea or particularly badly written.  It was 
that having them combined proved to be very confusing to people and that 
separating the parts makes clearer what part is general and what part is 
specific to the DNS.

d/


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