[idn] new idn charter

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>]

Hi,
	the wg co-chairs and the ADs agreed to make a few modifications to the 
charter in order to formally move from a "requirements and compare" wg to a 
"requirements, compare and design" working group. We will be in a position 
to accept protocol proposals and forward to standard track. The new 
proposed charter below has been discussed but is by no means accepted yet 
by the IESG.
	We are requesting input by the wg. After a hopefully concensus, we will be 
forwarding to the IESG for approval. May I ask for comments before this 
thursday 8 june 23h00 GMT?

Regards, Marc.

PS. current charter is at: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html

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Internationalized Domain Name (idn)

Chair(s):
  James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
  Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>

Internet Area Director(s):
  Thomas Narten <narten@raleigh.ibm.com>
  Erik Nordmark <nordmark@eng.sun.com>

Internet Area Advisor:
  Erik Nordmark <nordmark@eng.sun.com>

Technical Advisor(s):
  John Klensin (klensin+idn@jck.com)
  Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)

Mailing Lists:
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  To Subscribe: idn-request@ops.ietf.org
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Description of Working Group:

The goal of the group is to specify the requirements for internationalized
access to domain names and to specify a standards track protocol based on 
the requirements.

The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing 
this  and what methods are feasible given the technical impact they will 
have on  the use of such names by humans as well as application programs, 
as well as the impact on  other users and administrators of the domain name 
system.

A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current use 
and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to continue to 
allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain name.

The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should 
administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.

The group must identify consequences to the current deployed DNS 
infrastructure, the protocols and the applications as well as transition 
scenarios, where applicable.

The Action Item(s) for the Working Group are

1. An Informational RFC specifying the requirements for providing
Internationalized access to domain names. The document should provide
guidance for development solutions to this problem, taking localized (e.g.
writing order) and related operational issues into consideration.

2. An Informational RFC or RFC's documenting the various proposals and
Implementations of Internationalization (i18n) of Domain Names. The
document(s) should also provide a technical evaluation of the proposals by
the Working Group.

3. A standards track specification on access to internationalized domain
names including specifying any transition issues.

Goals and Milestones:

   Feb 00	First draft of the requirements document
   Mar 00	Discussion at IETF-Adelaide
   May 00	Second version of the requirement document
   Jun 00	Call for proposals
   Jul 00	Final discussion on the requirement document
   Aug 00	Req document wg last call
   Sep 00	First draft of comparaison document
   Oct 00	Discussions on various proposals
   Dec 00	Final discussion of comparaison document
   Dec 00	Protocol RFC first draft
   Jan 01	Comparaison document wg last call
   Mar 01	Protocol RFC second draft
   Mar 01	Transition RFC first draft
   Jun 01	Protocol RFC wg last call
   Jun 01	Transition RFC second draft
   Sep 01	Transition RFC wg last call


Marc Blanchet
Viagénie inc.
tel: 418-656-9254
http://www.viagenie.qc.ca

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