The IESG statement on IDNA, and the IDNA RFC

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

Greetings again. As some of you probably know, we are revising RFC 
3490 (the base document for the IDNA protocol) and hoping to move it 
from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard. Around the time that RFC 
3490 was issued, the IESG made a statement on IDNs, now archived at 
<http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/IDNstatement.txt>.

The document that is meant to revise RFC 3490, 
draft-hoffman-rfc3490bis-01.txt, references the IESG statement near 
the beginning of the document. John Klensin has made a request for 
doing more than that, namely to include the IESG statement wholesale 
instead of by reference. As one of the co-authors of the Internet 
Draft, I'm happy either way. I certainly don't want to put the 
then-IESG's words into an RFC without the current IESG's permission, 
but think it is fine to have them in the document as well. The words 
could go near the front of the document (where the reference is now), 
as an appendix (with a forward reference from the front of the 
document), or left as it is in the current draft (as a pointer to a 
URL).

Could the IESG please mull this over and let the co-authors (and 
John) know what you prefer? Thanks!

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium