Subject: WG ACTION: Internationalized Domain Name (idn)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 08:30:05 -0500

A new working group has been formed in the Internet Area of the IETF.
For additional information, contact the Area Directors
or the WG Chairs.

Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
-----------------------------------
 
 Current Status: Active Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     James Seng <[email-masked]>
     Marc Blanchet <[email-masked]>
 
 Internet Area Director(s): 
     Thomas Narten  <[email-masked]>
     Erik Nordmark  <[email-masked]>
 
 Internet Area Advisor: 
     Erik Nordmark  <[email-masked]>
 
 Technical Advisors: 
     John Klensin <[email-masked]>
     Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[email-masked]>   

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:[email-masked]
     To Subscribe:      [email-masked]
     Archive:           ftp://ops.ietf.org/pub/lists/idn*
 
Description of Working Group:
 
The goal of the group is to investigate and specify the requirements for
internationalized access to domain names.

The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing
this and what methods are feasible given the technical impact they will
have on the use of such names by humans as well as application programs,
as well as the impact on other users and administrators of the domain
name system.

A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current
use and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to
continue to allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain name.

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 providing
    Internationalized access to domain names. 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.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Feb 00       First draft of the requirements document             

   Mar 00       First draft of the proposal document(s)         

   Mar 00       Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide          

   May 00       Second version of the requirement document          

   May 00       Second version of proposal document(s)          

   Jun 00       IETF presentation and wg last call                             

   Jul 00       Requirements and proposal(s) sent to IESG for publication as 
                Informational