Status of the four documents of IDNA revision?
Paul Hoffman
phoffman at imc.org
Sat Feb 23 16:45:41 CET 2008
At 6:40 AM -0500 2/23/08, Vint Cerf wrote:
>could we get an update on the status of each of the four documents
>that are to be proposed for adoption through the IDNA working group?
Not to be too pedantic, but this is *not* a "working group" in the
IETF sense: it is an informal mailing list discussing
individually-authored Internet Drafts whose status is far from
determined. It is also not what the IETF normally calls a "design
team" given the open nature of the request for feedback.
Given the number of IETF non-regulars (a category which,
unfortunately, I put you in Vint: come on back!), it is important to
be clear that this is not (yet, if ever) an IETF activity.
>I sense that a great deal of progress has been made but I am unsure
>how to assess our distance from final documents ready for
>submission.
Given the flurry of new information that comes up every few weeks or
months, I would hope that more review by a wider audience would be
requested before anything was considered "final documents ready for
submission". Going to IETF Last Call with an incompatible revision to
a widely-deployed protocol without as much vetting as the original
protocol is sure to cause chaos. I understand that this is not what
some others on this list might want.
>Would the primary editors of each document try to assess when we
>might expect versions that could be forwarded to the appropriate
>Area Directors?
Have people even agreed who the appropriate Area Directors are? I suspect not.
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