Re: Question re: an Internet-Draft and testing/deployment

[Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet at viagenie.qc.ca>]

At 10:49 2000-02-16 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Noticed this one this morning:
>
> --- start excerpt
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories.
>
>
>         Title           : Compatible Internationalized Domain Names Using
>                           Compression
>         Author(s)       : P. Hoffman
>         Filename        : draft-hoffman-idn-cidnuc-02.txt
>         Pages           : 12
>         Date            : 15-Feb-00
>
> This protocol describes a transformation method for representing non-
> ASCII characters in domain names in a fashion that is completely
> compatible with the current DNS. It meets the many requirements for
> internationalization of domain names.
>
> Note: this protocol is quite experimental and should not be deployed in
> the Internet until it reaches standards track in the IETF.
> --- end excerpt
>
> Regarding the Note: - is there any coherent plan regarding testing/deployement
> in regards to moving this from Experimental to Standards Track?

- this is an individual submission, not a idn wg draft
- this is interesting work that is currently discussed in idn wg mailing 
list, while the current charter do not cover new protocols. the wg charter 
is currently on requirements and documenting current implementations.
- while there is a wide interest and rough concensus (my own opinion) that 
an idn solution has to be engineered and deployed, it is premature at this 
stage to identify which proposal(s) is going to be on standards 
track.  And, unless the IESG would accept that individual submission and 
put it on standard track, the proposal who will go on standard track should 
be discussed in a wg (my own opinion), since the impact of deploying idn 
will be important. The idn wg is probably today the only one in the IETF 
related to that topic.
- I would suggest you to join our wg mailing list:  idn-request at ops.ietf.org

Marc, co-chair of idn wg.




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>                                 Valdis Kletnieks
>                                 Operating Systems Analyst
>                                 Virginia Tech