Consensus Call - Tranche 2 (Document Groupings)

[Martin Duerst]

At 18:20 08/10/12, Vint Cerf wrote:
>Consensus Call Tranche 2 (Document Groupings)
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>Place your reply here: [YES or NO]

YES.

I don't think any of these are controversial, let's concentrate
on the real work we still have to do.

Regards,   Martin.


>COMMENTS:
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>Procedure:
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>There are several decisions that the working group will need to make to confirm consensus.  I will send a series of proposals over the next two weeks requesting YES or NO positions on each within a 4 day window. If NO is the response, a reason for that position needs to be stated. If there is a clear consensus based on responses or in the absence of a consensus against each proposal, it will be assumed that the proposal is acceptable to the Working Group.
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>Parenthesized symbols (e.g., "(R.1)") after the items are references to the issues lists where additional explanations can be found, as sent by John Klensin as body parts "idnabis-protocol-issues-rev3" and "idnabis-rationale-issues-03" on a message titled 'Issues lists and the "preprocessing" topic'  to the working group on 18 August (<http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2008-August/002537.html>http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2008-August/002537.html)
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>This group needs to get its documents out; it is behind its original schedule. It should be noted that the IDN ccTLD and gTLD selection initiatives at ICANN have already begun so that delay may weaken the IETF's ability to assist in a rational deployment of IDNA.
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>(2) Document Groupings
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>(2.a) The list of contextual rules and their values, including the associated IANA Considerations material, should be in Tables, not Rationale, Protocol, or elsewhere.  (R.8, P.1)
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>(2.b) Protocol and Tables should not be combined, for reasons discussed extensively on the mailing list.
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>(2.c) Protocol and Bidi should not be combined because the subject matter is rather different, as discussed extensively on the mailing list.
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#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp