[ga] Re: New Versions of IDNA Protocol Revision Proposals Posted

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:19:32PM +0100,
 Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 41 lines which said:

> True but it can become 'IETF work' by going through a 4 week last
> call etc..  when it is finally cooked.

My pronostic is that it won't become 'IETF work' but, of course, it is
just a personal feeling.
 
At the present time, it is *ICANN* work. ICANN promotes it, refers to
it, uses its terminology ("A-label") instead of the standard one, etc.

Most *individual* Internet-Drafts are never the subject of so much
attention from a powerful international organization.

> I believe the design team functions under a request of the IAB
> and/or IESG

RFC 4690 "Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain
Names (IDNs)", probably.

> (made a couple of obnoxious ones myself).

If I remember well, that the draft was trying to address political
problems through technical means. Correct?

> Also I understand that the design team has held 'open office hours'
> during the last IETF.

I was in Chicago and wanted to see it but the room was empty.
 
> So, while not a normal IETF product, it is also not quite a normal
> independent submission.

Yes, what is *not* normal is that ICANN promotes this work as if it
were IETF standard.
 
> I think it would be cool to see some substantive discussion on some
> of the revisions.  do people think it will an improvement?  will it
> work?

Right, but this is a bit off-topic for this list, no?