[idn]

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

Hi,
  back in Pittsburg, there was a wg concensus to have a design team that 
will come up with a proposal to the working group about a possible 
converged solution among all the current proposals. The co-chairs, with the 
blessing of the ADs, decided to split the problem space in two (divide to 
conquer!) and to have two design teams with different expertise and 
membership: one on the protocol (i.e what happens either on the wire or on 
the app side if ACE chosen), one on the "nameprep" (codepoints, case 
folding, etc.).

While the formation of the design teams took longer than expected, this 
mail is to announce the start of those design teams.

These design teams will work on a focused way, but there is no intent 
whatsoever to "bypass" the working group. If someone feels we are bypassing 
the working group, he is wrong. The design teams will report to the working 
group.  The design teams will be working using a mailing list which will be 
open for cross-posting: so if someone feels appropriate to send a specific 
comment to the design team, they can do.  But, think also that, unless I'm 
wrong, all design teams members are members of the idn main mailing list.

The following people are on the design teams:

protocol design team:
  Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se
  ogud@tislabs.com
  phoffman@imc.org
  tale@nominum.com
  as observers: co-chairs, ADs and idn wg technical advisors (if they wish)

nameprep design team
  phoffman@imc.org
  duerst@w3.org
  leslie@thinkingcat.com
  mark.davis@us.ibm.com
  asmus@unicode.org
  cwissink@microsoft.com
  toby_phipps@peoplesoft.com
    the last four being identified by the unicode consortium as their "nominee"
  paf@cisco.com as ietf-unicode liaison
  as observers: co-chairs, ADs and idn wg technical advisors (if they wish)


Design teams will organise themselves. An editor might be chosen if found 
useful and appropriate.

Design teams are expected to prepare at least a report for San Diego, but 
more preferably a proposed solution by that time.


Regards, Marc & James, co-chairs, idn wg.




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

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