Re: Getting back to first principles for requirements

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> Greetings. I've been following this thread and I must say that it
> worries me a bit. It seems like we are thinking of requirements
> that are more appropriate for a new protocol than for a change to
> a core protocol. That's a Bad Thing, given that we are talking
> about the DNS on which everything relies.

I think you started off wrongly. 

I believe the general consensus is that we work on a way to encode
internationalised characters into the domain names labels and records,
zonefile etc rather than overhaul the Domain Name System. This is worded
carefully in the charter, which has been submitted to the IESG already. 

Actually, this reminds me. We have yet to get approval for this WG :-)

-James Seng