Re: [idn] IDN rechartering rev 3

["James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

Please suggest alternative wordings. Thanks.

-James Seng

> > Adjusted Nameprep milestone in response to David's suggestion. If
there
> > is no further comments, this will be forward to the ADs.
>
> > working group will produce a standards-track specification for
> > extending the range of characters that can be used in Domain Names,
> > by humans. The enhancement will be designed to minimize changes to
> > existing Domain Name software and operations. In particular, changes
> > to the DNS infrastructure of storage and exchange mechanisms will
> > be avoided.
>
> This is mutually exclusive. What you are describing above (and below)
is
> an encoding, not a domain name syntax. To be even more precise, it is
a
> hostname decoding which will result in a UCS label sequence.
>
> Also note that this decoding will require changes to some parts of the
> infrastructure in order for it to be a successful encoding, probably
at
> the authoritative servers for a zone and possibly at the resolver
> depending on depth of adoption. I somehow doubt very much that the
> advocates of this document seriously mean to preclude themselves from
> consideration, so a less politically expeditious but more technically
> astute approach may be warranted.