Re: [idn] IDN charter update - revision 5

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

> > The WG will rely on, and reference, work from established efforts to
> > internationalize digital characters, such as, Unicode Consortium and
> > ISO/IEC.  Discussion of new codepoints, codepoint properties and
> > mappings between codepoints is appropriate for these other venues,
> > and is out of scope of this working group.
> >
>
> Have I violated the scope of this group?  Is this the reason
> I shall not discuss StepCode on this list?

StepCode _may be_ out-of-scope for the wg. But that is not the reasons
for keeping out of the list. The primary reason is that StepCode is not
within the wg core interest. Please respect that and not divert the
group into discussion outside core interest.

> > 3.  A standard track specification on an ASCII Compatible Encoding
> > (ACE), to be used in the standard track specification on permitting
> > international characters in domain names.
>
> Is this mean only one ACE will be chosen?

Unless there is a need to have more than one ACE is needed, and so far
there is none, so Yes to you question.

> > Nov 2001        Draft of architecture relating input methods,
> > namepreps
> >                 and zonefiles
>
>
> What are the drafts of architecture of IDN in the pool
> after Nov 2001, up to today?

Suppose to have one according to the result of London meeting. I see
John's 3 Layer model as one possibility.

If John thinks his draft should be outside this wg (since it cover many
things outside this wg), then we should drop this goal & milestone.

-James Seng