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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> idna-update-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:idna-update-bounces@alvestrand.no] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Vint
Cerf<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 March 2008 10:56<BR><B>To:</B>
idna-update@alvestrand.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> New Attempt to Close on IDNABIS
Charter (v2)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Folks,
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<DIV>We have been discussing a lot about IDNs in the mailing list, a lot of
the discussion is actually about specifics of the various draft documents
intended to form the basis for the work of the proposed IDNABIS working group
but a fair amount has been about the text of the charter. </DIV>
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<DIV>I have made what I hope are considered small revisions to the earlier
proposed charter to try to take into account comments made by a number of you
on the list.</DIV>
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<DIV>The revision which I am calling IDNABIS Charter (v2) is shown below. I
imagine that there may still be comments about this version but I ask you to
consider whether further amendment to the charter is as productive as getting
to work on the documents themselves. Some concerns have been expressed about
conditions for terminating the working group and re-chartering. I recognize
but perhaps don't fully appreciate the hazards here, but have re-worded
slightly these conditions. As the proposed working group chair, I am prepared
to do the best I can to manage this process and to defend the work of the
working group against re-chartering except under very significant deviation
from the proposed framework in the referenced draft specifications.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't quite know how to word the request but I would like to ask the
AD, Lisa Dusseault, to submit this version to the IESG for approval no later
than April 7, assuming that there are no further fundamental issues taken with
the text. As to "fundamental issues", I suggest that Lisa and I be the
arbiters of that for purposes of finalizing this charter for submission to the
IESG.</DIV>
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<DIV>With thanks to all on the list who have participated in improving the
charter,</DIV>
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<DIV>Vint Cerf</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The original
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) WG specified rules for the use of
characters other than Latin A(a)-Z(z), digits 0-9 and the hyphen (“-“) in
domain names in RFC3490, RFC3491 and RFC3492 in 2002 (published in 2003 and
often referenced collectively as “IDNA2003”).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">These
documents depend on RFC 3454 and were tied to Unicode version 3.2.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An update to the current version (5.x)
is required to accommodate additional scripts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition, experience has shown that
significant improvements could be made in the protocol as presently
specified.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">This WG is
chartered to decouple IDNA from specific versions of Unicode using algorithms
that define validity based on Unicode properties.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is recognized that some explicit
exceptions may be necessary in any case, but attempts will be made to minimize
these exceptions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Additional
goals:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Separate requirements for valid IDNs
at registration time (insertion of names into DNS zone files), vs. at
resolution time (looking up those names)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Review, and if necessary revise, the
algorithms and rules for handling right to left character sequences in an IDN
context to allow labels based on additional scripts and languages and to make
presentation as predictable as reasonably possible.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Permit use of some scripts that were
inadvertently excluded by the original protocols.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Ensure practical stability of
validity algorithms for IDNs.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The
constraints of the original IDN WG still apply to IDNABIS, namely to avoid
disturbing the current use and operation of the domain name system, and for
the DNS to continue to allow any system to resolve any domain name in a
consistent way. The client-based approach of the original IDN work will be
maintained -- substantially new protocols or mechanisms are not in scope.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In particular, IDNs continue to use
the "xn--" prefix and the same ASCII-compatible encoding, and the
bidirectional algorithm follows the same basic design.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The
specifications are initially organized as four documents: overview and
rationale, protocol, table algorithm, and improvements to the bidirectional
algorithm. These documents are to be used as the basis for the discussion of
the general direction of the work.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">This working
group will be providing extended public review of the output of a design team
that has been working on improvement of the IDNA
specifications.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">This
review-based approach is being used in part because of the way the work was
undertaken by the team; in particular, the design team has been working with
IETF visibility and has solicited and received significant amounts of
technical review already from IETF participants and from others including
experts in the Unicode specifications and the use of scripts in
languages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the public review
provided by this Working Group confirms the basic method outlined in the input
documents, it is expected that the working group will be able to respond with
any needed changes and close in a short period of time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If technical issues arise that
indicate a fundamentally different approach must be taken from the one
outlined above, it is anticipated that this working group would close, and a
new one with an appropriate charter would be considered.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">This work is
intended to specify an improved means to produce and use stable and
unambiguous IDN identifiers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">There are a
variety of generally unsolvable problems, notably the problem of characters
that are confusingly similar in appearance (often known as the "phishing"
problem) that are not specifically part of the scope of the WG although some
of the preliminary results of the design team suggest that the improvements
contemplated in the specifications might mitigate some of the ways in which
the current IDNA specifications can be abused for phishing
purposes.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">While it is
referenced from the original IDNA2003 package, the original Stringprep
specification, RFC 3454, is not formally part of the IDNA package and will not
be altered by this work.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The work will
update or obsolete RFC 3490.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not expected to continue to use Nameprep (RFC 3491).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nameprep is used by other
specifications; determining how (or whether) to update those specifications
and, consequently, the long-term status of Nameprep, are not part of this
effort.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The method
for ASCII-compatible ("ACE") encoding of IDNs, "Punycode" (RFC 3492) will
not be revised by this WG.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Subject to the
more general constraints described above, the WG is permitted to consider
changes that are not strictly backwards-compatible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For any such change that is
recommended, it is expected to document the reasons for the change, the
characters affected, and possible transition strategies.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">The
assumptions outlined above are considered critical to the WG constituted
by this charter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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:</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(i) A change to the "punycode"
algorithm or to the ACE approach to encoding names in the
DNS.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(ii) A change to the ACE prefix
from "xn--"<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(iii) A change to the basic
approach taken in the design team documents (Namely: independence from Unicode
version and elimination of character mapping in the
protocol)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Goals and
milestones:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Apr 08: WG
formation<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">May 08:
Decision on form and structure of the WG document set<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Sep 08: WG
Last Call on WG document set<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Nov 08: IETF
Last Call on WG document set<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Documents:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><A
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-idnabis-issues"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #0000dd; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-idnabis-issues</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><A
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-idnabis-protocol"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #0000dd; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-idnabis-protocol</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><A
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #0000dd; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #0000dd; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><A
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #0000dd; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P>
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