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Appeal to the IESG concerning the approbation of the IDNA2008 document set.

2010-03-10 16:43:13
The IESG has received an appeal.  It can be found here:
http://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal/morfin-2010-03-10.pdf

JFC Morfin included these comments in the cover note:

Basically this appeal documents that IDNA2008 enlight capacities
and principles that are built in the Internet technology but that
were not used. This is a great thing. However the IESG has not
included a disclaimer on top of these documents, nor foreseen how
and where the necessary IDNA user-side issues are to be discussed
and documented. This may lead people like me to unpredictably toy
with them without any established Adminance (governance of the tools
to be managed by the Governance) arrangement, or organizations like
ICANN to engage into inappropriate testing.

The document size is impressive. There is three reasons to that:

- the impact on the Internet usage architecture is potentially
impressive

- the change is not in the technology, but in the way to consider
the technology and the way it addresses multiplicity. IDNA2008 is
about pople's multilinguization while IDNA2003 was about Unicode's
globalization. This is a big change that multilinguists can discuss.
However, everyone has to understand it simplifies the complexity of
handling multiplicity (RFC 3439 - principle of simplicity) in
conformance with RFC 1858 to do it at fringes. RFC 1958 also advises
to keep the first solution when it works.

- the third reasons is that I do not want to be accused of not having
checked my rationale for Interplus and further Intersem work. NB. I
call Interplus is what I think Internet needs to be able to fully
support the Intersem (that the IDNA2008's approaches simplifies), and
the Intersem is what IDNA2008 introduces: the capacity for brain to
brain interintelligibility.

The document is also maintained as a wiki under
http://iucg.org/wiki/100310_-_JFCM_Appeal_to_the_IESG.

The IESG plans address this appeal in the next few weeks, and the IESG
solicits comments on this appeal from the community.  Please send
substantive comments to the ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists by 
2010-03-27.
Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org instead.

On behalf of the IESG,
  Russ Housley


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