Re: WG Charter

[James Seng <jseng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Martin J. Duerst" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the correct. I agreed that drafting these documents
is very important step so as we will not end up in silly argument
in the future discussion on why we are doing this or that.

Anyway, update on charter. Comments pls.

-James Seng


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The goal of the group is to investigate and specify the requirements for
supporting internationalized domain names.

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 proposals 
     and Implementations of Internationalization (i18n) of Domain Names. 
     The document(s) should also provide a technical evaluation of the 
     proposals by the Working Group.

Milestones:

   Jan 2000 First draft of the requirements document
   Feb 2000 First draft of the proposal document(s)
   Mar 2000 Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide
   May 2000 Second version of the requirement document
   May 2000 Second version of proposal document(s)
   Jun 2000 IETF presentation and wg last call
   Jul 2000 Requirements and proposal(s) sent to IESG for publication 
            as Informational