consensus item - "IDNA2008"

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Vint,

I am surprised about the amount of discord the naming of IDNA has brought forward.

Being a latecomer in the IDNA project, I have found IDNA's naming bizarre in that the date of inception was included in the naming. If I may say, this is slightly unwise, since on projects overruns, you end up with the current debate regarding 2008, 2009, or other.
Thinking out of the box, I wondered if one could not see IDNA2003 as IDNA1.0 and the current IDNA as IDNA2.0. 

In a few years, IDNA's year of procreation will not matter anyway, will it?

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Olivier

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vint Cerf 
  To: idna-update at alvestrand.no 
  Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:36 PM
  Subject: consensus item - "IDNA2008"


  Although we may not finalize all consensus items until early in 2009, I would like to ask for consensus to stick with the "IDNA2008" nomenclature for two reasons:


  1. the bulk of the work has been done in that year
  2. the term clearly distinguishes IDNA2008 from IDNA2003


  I recognize that suggestions have been made to rename the work "IDNA" or "IDNA2009" but it seems to me that we have a body of material (draft I-Ds and list commentary) that references "IDNA2008" and that it serves clarity to retain the binding.


  May I assume concurrence?


  vint






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