Consensus Call Tranche 7 (BiDi Model)

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

7a seems a long-winded way of avoiding the obvious, the semantics of "." 
in the DNS is not a sentence terminator, and the algorithm that is used 
works for the latter case, and not for the former.

7b I'm going to just ditto Andy's comments all the way down to "is this 
provision really necessary".

Vint Cerf wrote:
> Consensus Call Tranche 7 (BiDi Model)
>
> Place your reply here: [YES]
>
> COMMENTS:
>
>
> Procedure:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
>
> (7) The Bidi model
>
> (7.a) Bidi tests are not made between labels in the protocol
> although warnings about possible presentation and others
> difficulties should appear in the Bidi discussion.  (P.4)
>
> (7.b) Bidi tests SHOULD be applied at lookup time (not MUST).
> (P.5)
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