Re: [council] Re: Regarding issues report on IDNs from PAF

[Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I agree that it would be a useful objective for the GNSO Council to  
coordinate the explanation of the political issues and the requirements.
I do, however, continue to think that this should not be done in  
isolation by the council as it needs to take into account a larger  
context.  I also do not believe that it should be done in a technical  
vacuum, but should be done together with the technical experts, from  
both the IAB, IETF and elsewhere.
thanks
a.

On 5 feb 2006, at 14.57, Avri Doria wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Patrik Fältström <paf@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 5 februari 2006 14.17.16 EST
> > To: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: GNSO Council <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Klensin <john- 
> > ietf@xxxxxxx>, Cary Karp <ck@nic.museum>
> > Subject: Re: [council] Re:  Regarding issues report on IDNs
> >
> > On 5 feb 2006, at 19.33, Avri Doria wrote:
> >
> > > Even the questions that PAF asks are dependent on the current  
> > > thinking about the technology and if there was creative work  
> > > being on the research and engineering for IDN, we might have  
> > > different questions to answer.
> > (I know my messages are not accepted by the GNSO mailing list  
> > exploder, but please forward if you want to.)
> > If you start with the questions you want to ask, and some  
> > requirements, I can let you know what the technology say about it.
> > For example, wether you want (technical) guarantees that the same  
> > registrant have the domain name example.foo and example.<idn- 
> > version-of-foo>. Or is it a requirement that those two domains can  
> > be managed by two different registrants?
> > As long as that is not resolved, there is simply no way technical  
> > community can help.
> > > Unfortunately, as interesting as the IAB draft is, it doesn't, to  
> > > my mind, do much to indicate what work will be done to try and  
> > > figure out solutions, maybe even creative solutions, that take  
> > > the very real political realities into account.
> > Can you please list what those "very real politicla realities"  
> > are? If you do, I can make sure the technical community do have a  
> > look at it. This is exactly what I talk about when I ask for what  
> > questions you have and what the answer is.
> >     Patrik