Minutes of the WEIRDS WG
IETF 86, Orlando, FL, USA
SESSION #1: 2013-03-12 10:30

The chairs noted that there was an extra session for the working group
(WG) added during the week.

Andy Newton offered a report about the demo that was happened earlier
in the day. It included both server and test suite demonstrations. The
chairs reported that they would plan to do interop work at Berlin or
Vancouver, but it would be more structured.

Jean-Philippe Dionne offered a description of the test suite, and
experience with it.  This inspired discussions about some proposed
changes.

Simon Perreault made some remarks about the JCARD WG.  Pete Resnick as
AD made clear that JCARD was chartered to work in three months.  The
chairs asked about the contract between WEIRDS and JCARD, but the AD
said that JCARD is critical for other WGs too.  The chairs observed
that their reading of consensus is that the WG would wait for the
youtput of JCARD.

Andy Newton offered a presentation about internationalization and
WEIRDS.  It raised an issue about U-labels and A-labels that needed
additional discussion on the mailing list.

Scott Hollenbeck made some remarks about search.  This yielded some
discussion about what sort of searching is needed.  John Levine and
Steve Sheng said they would make a list of existing searchable fields.

The chairs adjourned the meeting.

SESSION #2: 2013-03-14 17:30

Ning Kong, security issues:
  slides at http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/86/slides/slides-86-weirds-2.pdf

Federated authentication: not a requirement in the protocol, 
but likely to be of interest to implementations such as ICANN's new TLDs

Server authentication: authenticate servers, the data the return,
both, something else?  Noted that it is essentially the same as the
bootstrap problem, which we agreed to defer a several meetings ago due
to disagreements about practicalities of proposed implementations.

Authentication approach: use existing http methods, add a new web form approach?

Data Integrity for redirects: do we need anything beyond TLS?

Data abuse on searchable RDAP: policy issue.  Do we want to provide
advice on sanitizing data to prevent HTML injection attacks?

Steve Sheng, ICANN IDN work:
  slides at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/weirds/current/pdfwJMDQkkTkn.pdf
  attached to http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/weirds/current/msg02230.html

The co-chairs observed that the current WEIRDS drafts meet all of the ICANN requirements.
Steve concurred.

John Levine, searches: start with existing searches, which are just
prefix matches of specified fields.  For anything else, propose use
cases and describe the implementation plan.  The co-chairs believe this is a
discussion to be repeated and continued on the mailing list.

Olaf (co-chair) informed the group that he will give a WEIRDS WG update during the forthcoming ICANN and RIPE meeting.