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Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top Level Domain meeting

Comments on issues that haven't been discussed yet.

Issue 2: Resolve any domain name anywhere.

We refer to Section 2.1, paragraph 1.

Recommendation:

We feel it is best phrased as "...to allow any system anywhere to
resolve any
Internet multilingual domain name..."

"multilingual" isn't really appropriate here. "internationalized" is more accurate.

Issue 4: The requirement should concern with protocol, not
implementation.

We refer to 2.1 paragraph 1, on the phrase "DNS interoperability".

We feels that the word "interoperability" is unfairly bias that
implementation
has to "interoperability" even with broken implementation. However, we
have no
proposal on the replacement for the word but we would appreciate a
proper
rephrasing to reflect this principle.

No recommendation at this moment.

Maybe "DNS protocol interoperability" would suffice.

Issue 5: What is a current domain name? What is IDN?

We refer to Section 1.1, paragraph 2.

RFC1034 Section 3.5 is a poor definition of domain name. A better one is

RFC1123. However, we also noted that even RFC1123 is not sufficient to
define
a host name and domain name properly.

We need a properly definition of label, domain and host. It is funny to
note
that we are doing IDN without even able to properly define IDN.

Recommendation:

We need more data and information and give a better definition.

How does this sound:

"Current domain name" is defined as a domain name that contains only the characters U+002D, U+0030 through U+0039, U+0041 through U+005A, and U+0061 through U+007A, and which begins with any of these characters except U+002D.

"IDN" is used in this document as an abbreviation for "internationalized domain name". This is defined as a domain name that contains one or more characters that are outside the set of characters specified for current domain names.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium