Re-sending TXT form of Proposed IDNA2008 Transition Idea
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Tue Dec 15 09:41:45 CET 2009
As a P.S. to my remarks on the ICANN IDN Guidelines
<http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm>,
anyone reading them may wish to note --
The reason that text has been unchanged for so long is that the
authorship group has been waiting for the IDNA protocol revision to be
concluded so its details can be reflected in the next version of the
Guidelines.
ICANN had been similarly holding off on finalizing the terms of the
ccTLD Fast Track <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/> to
ensure its conformity with the revised protocol. That goal was abandoned
a while back and a reference group was appointed to advise about key
pending implementation issues. The report produced by that group
<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-03dec09-en.htm>
will likely be folded into the Guidelines to render them more applicable
to the TLD space, without or without additional benefit of being able to
address the outcome of the protocol revision. The report considers the
matter of "character variant management" which should also be of
relevance to the IDNA-UPDATE discussion of bundling.
/Cary
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