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

[James Seng <jseng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Austein wrote:
> 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.

Any more comments on this? I will send a updated Charter without 3 later.
 
> 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.

Erm, I am perfectly happy for someone else to run the mailing list. 
So any volunteer?
 
>    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

Sorry, but I really do not know how to decipher .mgp file. I put up what was
forward to me by Marc.

-James Seng