Consensus Call Tranche 1 (Document Organization)

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

NO

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:54:52PM -0400,
 Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote 
 a message of 199 lines which said:

> This group needs to get its documents out; it is behind its original  
> schedule. 

Which was completely unrealistic from the beginning. The schedule had
absolutely non consensus at the time of the WG creation but this was
ignored by the IESG.

> It should be noted that the IDN ccTLD and gTLD selection  
> initiatives at ICANN have already begun so that delay may weaken the  
> IETF's ability to assist in a rational deployment of IDNA.

Off-topic: wether ICANN does something or not is irrelevant to us. I
notice there is already an IDN standard and therefore ICANN has no
need to wait for a revision.

> - The normative material should be removed from Rationale and extracted 
> to a separate document (for example Terms and Concepts) even if this 
> lengthens the WG's target dates for an unknown period of time.  Note that 
> there may be controversy about what material is normative and what is 
> not; that is a separate consensus issue and may also take an unknown 
> period of time to resolve   (R.2)

YES