Dear John and Oscar, At 15:01 30/04/03, John C Klensin wrote:
I suggest that, if you are serious about this, the usual IETF model is probably more useful than complaining on this list about paths not taken or paths that the WG tried (intentionally or not) to cut off).We saw this approach has probably failed in spite of the efforts and the capacity of the involved persons. There is no interest to reuse it. May be interest in understanding why it did not work well?
But here? My impression is that most of the people who watched or particpated in the WG are exhausted about the subject and really glad it reached _some_ conclusion and got documents out the door.
True.
Those who really like IDNA will defend it, and some of us who still have misgivings about certain aspects of it would like to give it some time to see if it is adopted and workable in practice. Those who are convinced that IDNA is a serious mistake, or that it will cut off important future evolution (and I have never been a member of either group) have, I think, mostly gone elsewhere.I am probably one of them since I think the current solution is a bugged? Sorry, I am still here.
So I suggest taking it elsewhere, leaving this list for discussion of issues in implementation and deployment of IDNA.I fully agree. As long as IDNs were under IETF control the rest of the partners were blocked. Now the IDNA has been released, even if the proposed solution was(is) no good, it is A solution.
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