Re: [idn] Re: CDNC Final Comments on Last call of IDN drafts

[Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net>]

At 09:16 PM 6/7/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> Your above defense of  premature and lacking-of-consensus IDN standards 
> won't work

If you review the amount of time spent on developing this work, you will 
discover that it is a long way from premature.  Quite the contrary.  The 
work has gone on approximately two years longer than it needed to.

If you review the usual IETF processes for developing rough consensus, you 
will discover that IDN is a long way from lacking rough consensus.  In fact 
the process has continued beyond achieving adequate rough consensus, 
because the IETF has been heeding the concerns of a vocal minority of the 
community, where most of the concerns of that vocal minority concern 
technical issues that are outside of the scope of this working group.


>  I hope you Dave share with us  serious concerns about how to secure DNS from
> irreversible jeopardizations by commercial driving forces of IDN.

We heard similar hyperbole about MIME.

It failed to prove true then.  It will fail to prove true for IDN.

IDN is a careful, focused response to a specific problem with DNS character 
sets.  IDN correctly limits its scope to the solution of that character set 
problem.

d/


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