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



At 19:52 99-11-25 -0500, Rob Austein wrote:

2) My recollection is that the BOF concluded that idns.org should NOT
   host the mailing list for this WG.

nope. The comment from Patrick and others was to not use idns in the list name. idn-ietf is neutral (it was my suggestion as co-chair). There was no comments (that I've heard of) regarding the hosting.


 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.

I'm really surprised about this comment. What is the problem about hosting a mailing list? Why are we slipping the discussion on where to host a mailing list. I don't follow you.


Regards, Marc.




   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


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