Follow-up to Monday's discussion of digits

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 01:23:55PM +0300, Raed Al-Fayez wrote:
 
> -          Another point I think we should not give more power to
> -          the registries especially for the things that can be
> -          handled and solved by the protocol levels in order to
> -          ensure the security and stability of the Internet and
> -          domain names space.

Unfortunately, that premise is exactly the _opposite_ of the principle
that has been so far underlying the WG's work.  My understanding is
that we want to make the protocol as policy-neutral as possible, and
push into policy as much as we can.  We have to take that stance in
order to achieve the firs bullet of the charter:

  - Separate requirements for valid IDNs at registration time
  (insertion of names into DNS zone files), vs. at resolution time
  (looking up those names)

If we are going to make a decision here that depends either on
enforcing consistency across registries, or on centralising in the
protocol what could also be handled by registry policy, or on reducing
confusability, I can see no reason at all why we shouldn't re-open the
question of various obsolte scripts, &c.  

A

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