New versions of Defs (-01), Protocol (-06), and Rationale (-04)

John C Klensin klensin at jck.com
Sun Nov 2 22:58:47 CET 2008


Hi.

New versions of these three documents will be posted soon --
queues permitting, the first two soon and the other in some
hours after I do one last proofreading pass.

I believe these versions reflect all of the changes necessitated
by Vint's conclusions about consensus.

Please see the change logs and/or generate diffs to understand
the changes or, preferably, read the documents.   

Some general comments:

(1) I am assuming, having gotten no substantive comments on
Defs-00 since it was posted, that it is generally consistent
with what the WG was looking for.  If that is not the case, it
would really help with progress if people spoke up sooner rather
than later.

(2) Rationale and Protocol have been gone over fairly carefully,
with a lot of small changes to clarify them and make the
documents more consistent with each other.  Someone needs to
check those changes, ideally several someones.

(3) My understanding of the plan about normative material in
Protocol and Rationale is that there should be no such material
in the latter and as little explanatory material in Protocol as
possible, focusing Protocol on the material an implementer needs
to know to generate a working and interoperable IDNA2008
implementation.   One corollary to that is that there is no
place in Protocol for extended advice to registries.
Consequently, some "advice" material that was suggested for
Protocol has been incorporated into Rationale.  There is one
remaining section of Protocol that should probably be moved
back; it has been identified with a comment and input would be
appreciated.

If people disagree that the model is "explanatory material and
advice in Rationale; normative specification, focused on
implementers in Protocol", it would help progress a lot if they
would speak up soon and accompany their comments with a model
from which material can be categorized.

(4) There is a new, but still very rough, section (7.2) in
Rationale that addresses the transition issues with Final Sigma
and Eszett.    I do not believe it is finished or even nearly
final, but thought that having some text, in context, for people
to examine and make comments on would help us move forward.

      john



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