[registrars] RE: Agenda for Paris

["Nevett, Jonathon" <jnevett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eric.  I will add some time for these technical issues.  Best,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:47 PM
To: Nevett, Jonathon
Cc: Registrars Constituency
Subject: Agenda for Paris

Jon,

At some point I hope we can schedule the constituency meeting so that it

isn't on the same day as the registry constituency meeting.

There are some technical issues that I'd like to see on the agenda, a 
few minutes each should suffice for the face-to-face portion of the 
Constituency's ongoing process:

    1. whether we have any interest in the latest fix for, or adding new

bells and whistles to, IDN,
    2. whether we have any interest in fixing and/or adding new bells 
and whistles to EPP,
    3. any other technical business

I'll provide the latest mechanism that Mozilla is about to field (in six

to eight weeks) to respond to what they evaluate as a misuse of cookies 
and the DNS. At the moment it is something called the "Public Suffix 
List" which is compiled into Firefox (and equivalents in other browsers 
too) which identifies the second-level namespaces. Mostly this doesn't 
affect com/net/org, but there are (and I expect there will be more) gtld

registries which sell second-level names, so while the presenting 
problem (cross-site user tracking via undisclosed linked HTTP cookies) 
is more a ccTLD phenomena, eventually the browser mechanism (static list

with updates or some choice of discovery mechanism) will be of interest 
to vendors of gTLD namespaces.

The proposal of the moment (subject to furious discourse on both the 
dnsop and http-wg lists) is at the following URL:
     http://publicsuffix.org/list/

No agenda time is necessary for the Mozilla thing, I'll just dump 50 
copies of whatever I write up on the pick-up table, and I'll keep it to 
one page.

See you in Paris,
Eric