Re: [idn] [Last Call] Working Group Charter

[Rob Austein <sra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Two comments:

1) I concur with Olafur's comment about action item #3.  As those who
   were at the BOF in DC will no doubt recall, I do not believe that
   we have enough information about the requirements to know whether
   these internationalization and localization issues should be
   handled in the DNS or via some other mechanism in some other
   protocol.  So I think that putting stuff in the charter about an
   intention to do standards-track protocol work is premature.

2) My recollection is that the BOF concluded that idns.org should NOT
   host the mailing list for this WG.  While I am not suggesting that
   anyone has or intends to behave in any way improperly, I think that
   it would be in everyone's best interest to find a neutral party to
   host the list.

   Eg, a more suspicous mind than mine might find it odd that my
   presentation of an alternative mechanism is only available at the
   proposed WG's web page as a block of base64 encoded gzipped text.
   I happen to believe that this was an honest mistake by someone
   dealing with an unfamiliar document format, but given that the iDNS
   proposal already has backing from venture capitalists and given how
   much fun we've already had with the financial and political aspects
   of US-ASCII domain names, I'd really rather avoid even the
   appearance of a conflict of interest.

--Rob