Issues lists and the "preprocessing" topic

[Vint Cerf]

Mark,

you and I had a similar impression but we should distinguish  
impressions from face/face meetings and gauging views from the list.  
I will try to formulate some possible consensus points and see  
whether we find support for them on the list.

vint


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On Aug 27, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Mark Davis wrote:

> I'm a bit surprised. My impression is that in general people  
> distinctly did not want to see a preprocessing document as part of  
> IDNAbis, and that John and others didn't want to even see it as a  
> separate IETF document.
>
> I'm not sure why you can't see the document. Can you try again, and  
> is anyone else having trouble?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Patrik Fältström  
> <patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:
>
> On 21 aug 2008, at 01.59, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > Based on comments from John and others at the meeting, however, it
> > appears
> > that the working group is fundamentally not interested in having a
> > common
> > specification for a mapping phase be part of the IDNAbis, and that
> > it would
> > be better done by organizations like Unicode or others. Based on
> > that, I
> > modified the draft at http://docs.google.com/Doc? 
> id=dfqr8rd5_51c3nrskcx
> > , and
> > submitted it to the UTC for consideration.
>
>
> A few things:
>
> I have not seen this consensus you refer to. The contrary. I see
> support for such a document.
>
> I personally support such a document in the IETF, and have told you
> and everyone I have been asked.
>
> The URI you have above does not resolve. I get back a 404.
>
> Regarding earlier versions of this document, I think it is a fine
> start, but too bound to "web based applications". I.e. ok as such, but
> if applicable to more protocols than web/http, it could be more
> generic. But see comments on in what order the wg have cycles for
> working on multiple documents and multiple threads.
>
>    Patrik
>
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