Hasty attempt to create an IDN WG (Was: WG Review: Internationalized Domain Name (idn)

[Harald Alvestrand]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +0200,
>  Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net> wrote 
>  a message of 21 lines which said:
>
>   
>> But it is quite common when we revise a specification that we have
>> only an incomplete defect list. Or we may not have determined if a
>> particular issue is really a defect. Understanding which specific
>> issues have to be fixed is typically WG work in a bis spec effort.
>>     
>
> But it is not in the charter, quite the contrary. The proposed charter
> is written as if there was a consensus on the IDN problems (there is
> not, besides the limitation to Unicode 3.2 and may be the bidi). No
> work is planned to discuss the problems, only solutions are present in
> the charter, already decided even before the WG exists.
>   
The charter is an agenda item at the BOF.
If there's consensus that you're right and the proponents are wrong, we 
can change it.

                 Harald