Re: WG Charter

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@xxxxxx>]

Some very minor wording comments.

i may have said that, or at least wanted to say that,
earlier: i think that doing requirements,... first is
crucial to make this difficult task become a success.


At 18:28 1999/12/11 +0800, James Seng wrote:
> Sorry for the wrong choice of words in the last email.
> 
> Anyway, here is the charter again. If there is absolutely
> no more comments, Marc will forward this to Patrik.
> 
> *cheers*
> 
> -James Seng
> 
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> The goal of the group is to investigate and specify the requirements for
> supporting internationalized (i18n) domain names.

             Internationalization of Domain Names

(casing as below, i18n is internationalization, not internationalized).

> 
> The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing this
> and what technical impact they will have on the users of such names and on
> other users and administrators of the domain name system.
> 
> The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should
> administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.
> 
> The Action Item(s) for the Working Group are
> 
>   1. An Informational RFC specifying the requirements for encoding
>      International characters into DNS names and records. 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 proposal 

proposal -> proposals

>      and Implementation of Internationalization of Domain Names. The 

Implementation -> implementations

>      document(s) should also provide a technical evaluation of the proposal

proposal -> proposals

>      by the Working Group.
> 
> Milestones:
> 
>    Jan 2000 First draft of the requirements document
>    Feb 2000 First draft of the mechanisms document

'mechanism' doesn't appear anywhere above. I suggest changing
2 above to 'various proposals for mechanisms' or some such.

>    Mar 2000 Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide
>    May 2000 Second version of the requirement document
>    May 2000 Second version of mechamism document

mechanism -> mechanisms.

>    Jun 2000 IETF presentation and wg last call
>    Jul 2000 Requirements and mechanisms sent to IESG for publication as
>             Informational

Regards,   Martin.


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