PostWG IDNA2008 implementation, transition and deployment document preparation
Cary Karp
ck at nic.museum
Thu Dec 17 08:26:05 CET 2009
> - Tina Dam is in charge of issuing a new set of guidelines that will
> apply to Fast Track participants.
> - in this endeavor you are playing a role equivalent to an IETF AD
In this endeavor, I am one of a group of TLD administrators who meet as
peers and have volunteered to be their scribe. (Only two of us regard
ourselves as native Anglophones and the other guy keeps forgetting to
bring a pencil.)
> I understand that in first phase you are concerned by a politically
> limited number of IDNccTLDs. Our own target is similar. However it is
> more general since it targets billions of existing or future zone
> Managers who are going to actually use the IDNA system.
The group has been active since IDNA2003 was finalized, and its mandated
concern has been to provide a basis for the responsible implementation
of that protocol in the SLD space. Beyond that, we make every endeavor
to formulate the Guidelines in a manner that will have commonsense
appeal to the operators of all zones on all levels of the DNS when
formulating their own IDN policies. We also make every effort for the
Guidelines to reflect the best wisdom about IDN generated in other fora.
Our work has been in abeyance for an uncomfortably long time while
waiting for IDNA2008, and my proposal was intended to hasten progress on
both fronts. The transition between IDNA2203 and IDNA2008 is a glaringly
obviously concern for the TLDs that have been accepting registration
under the former. Since there are no IDN-labeled TLDs, those that will
be established are unlikely to have legacy difficulties in this regard.
The next version of the Guidelines will of necessity contain transition
recommendations. It therefore seems rather obvious for them to reflect
the massive amount of work done by the IETF WG and the organizations
that have participated in it. If the IETF nonetheless opts to establish
a separate instrument in which corresponding recommendations are
expressed, the gTLDs -- which are contractually bound to implementing
the ICANN Guidelines -- can easily end up in the awkward position of
needing to reject anything proposed by the IETF (or in any other
context) that is at odds with the ICANN Guidelines.
/Cary
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