Idna-update Digest, Vol 15, Issue 69

Shawn Steele Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com
Wed Mar 26 02:29:24 CET 2008


+1.  I like (i) & (ii), but I'm also not sure what (iii) would be.

- Shawn

-----Original Message-----
That works for me. Item (iii) needs fleshing out a bit.

               (iii) A change to the basic approach taken in the design
               team documents.

It is clear when a change would violate (i) or (ii) would be, but not clear
what kind of change would violate (iii).

Mark

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:18 PM, John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com> wrote:

> (1) As far as the charter is concerned, let's be explicit about
> this.  Rather than scattering language and restrictions
> throughout the charter, let's make an explicit subsection that
> says something like
>
>        The WG will stop, close, and recommend that a new
>        charter be generated if it concludes that any of the
>        following are necessary to meet its goals:
>
>                (i) A change to the "punycode" algorithm or the ACE
>                approach to encoding names in the DNS
>
>                (ii) A change to the ACE prefix from "xn--"
>
>                (iii) A change to the basic approach taken in the design
>                team documents.



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