Re: [idn] Internet Driver Open Letter on Internationalized Domain Names

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 10:52 AM 11/15/2001 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>The _only_ solution to that problem at this stage is for you to
>post an Internet Draft that explains exactly what you propose to
>do, how it works, how it avoids the problems that many of us have
>pointed out to you

Given that the Driver folks apparently are new to the IETF world, please 
permit me to elaborate a bit about the document that is needed:

It is a technical protocol specification that lays out all of the 
procedures and formats to be used.  The document needs to be sufficient to 
permit an implementor to build an interoperable version of the capability.

This must be considerably more thorough than the section of a patent that 
supposedly provides implementation details to a person practised in the art 
of the patent.

d/

ps.  Given the history of postings and claims by iDriver, and the fact that 
details have not been forthcoming, I propose that their activities occupy 
this working group no further, until the necessary protocol specification 
have been posted as an Internet Draft.


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