Proposed document structure and content for IDNA
Martin Duerst
duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Fri Jul 11 03:51:41 CEST 2008
Great to see some alternative proposals for document organization.
I'm still a bit split on this one.
On the one hand, it would really be good to have a good rationale
document, especially because some of the currently proposed changes
(that I'm still quite sceptical about) indeed benefit from a clear
and solid justification.
On the other hand, I totally agree that there is quite a bit of
disagreement over rationale and even more about issues, and that
for some of this stuff (I think that was in a document that has
already been published), I wasn't even able to read much more
than a paragraph or two because a lot of it was unjustified and
unnecessary.
In the end, I'd guess that no rationale document is better than
a confusing rationale document that takes a lot of work.
Regards, Martin.
At 02:37 08/07/11, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>Greetings again. This is in reply to many comments that were made at
>the face-to-face meeting in Philly meeting, and prompted by Vint's
>message yesterday about preparing for the Dublin meeting.
>
>There are three large problems with the structure and content of the
>current set of documents; fortunately, all are easy to fix at the
>same time.
>
>- An implementer would have to read some parts of all four documents
>in order to do any implementation of IDNA2008
>
>- An implementer would need to determine which parts of the four
>documents were commentary / history / rationale versus which parts
>are needed for an interoperable implementation
>
>- There is a possibly-permanent lack of consensus about the rationale
>for updating IDNA2003 to IDNA2008
>
>Given these three, and easy solution would be to create a single
>document that has just the needed protocol pieces without any
>personal commentary, history, or rationale.
>
>Having a single document such as this would make it much easier for
>the WG to review. The long, pendulous threads from the past few
>months have often been more about rationale than about protocol, and
>even when they were about protocol, they devolved into rationale
>arguments.
>
>Having a single document such as this would make it more likely that
>IDNA2008 implementations would fully interoperate. Implementers would
>not need to guess at the WG's intentions: the protocol would be fully
>specified in one place.
>
>Having a single document such as this would make IDNA2008 clearer
>than IDNA2003. Our decision to split IDNA2003 into multiple
>interlinked documents seemed right at the time, but we have heard
>repeatedly since then that it wasn't a good idea. Including some of
>or rationale also seemed like a good idea, but that turned out wrong
>as well.
>
>In summary, we should:
>
>- Merge the four documents into one (keeping all the authors, of course)
>- Completely strip out the commentary / history / rationale
>- Move forwards with one concise protocol document
>
>Thoughts?
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