Re: [wg-c] CONSENSUS CALLS -- THIS IS IT

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

You are proposing a WG on a *policy* matter.

ICANN's very own mandate says that they oversee TECHNICAL
COORDINATION of the Internet.

How do you justify this?

--
Christopher Ambler
chris@the.web

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Weinberg" <weinberg@mail.msen.com>
To: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <Harald@Alvestrand.no>; <wg-c@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [wg-c] CONSENSUS CALLS -- THIS IS IT


> At 08:55 PM 4/11/00 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>PROPOSED ROUGH CONSENSUS ITEM NUMBER THREE
> >>
> >>         WG-C recommends that the Names Council charter a working group
to
> >> develop policy regarding internationalized domain names using non-ASCII
> >> characters.
> >
> >No.
> >
> >As technical advisor to the IETF IDN working group, I feel that the
> >technical issues with regard to internationalized domain names are not
> >worked out to a degree where we can make sensible policy - we do not yet
> >know the technical constraints such a policy has to conform to.
> >
> >NOTE: This is "No, not at this time", not "No, not ever".
>
> James Seng, who's the co-chair of the IETF IDN WG, wrote to me that in
> his view the WG is on track to finish its work by July.  If we suggest a
> DNSO WG now, as a practical matter the NC won't act on it until the
> Yokohama meeting (that is, July).  So I've been figuring that the
technical
> work *will* precede the policy work.
>
> That said, Harald knows infinitely more about this topic than I do.
>
> Jon