Hi John,
It's been a while!
In fact, it's been so long since I've really taken part in any RFC or Internet Draft related discussion that I'd like to apologize in advance if the following questions are, um, stupid...
John C Klensin wrote:
While I think that an "International coordination list" would be helpful, my assumption is that ICANN's idn-discuss list (see http://www.icann.org/topics/idn.html for subscription information and some other information that might be useful) is intended to serve that purpose. It is pretty clearly not this, or any other, IETF list: the IETF made a series of fairly explicit decisions to not get into the business of deciding what things could or could not be registered within the very broad coding mechanisms specified as part of IDNA.
I had a look at the welcome message of the idn-discuss list at ICANN, and it seems to be aimed more at the registry operators. I was hoping to find a forum where a broader group of interested parties could discuss the issue of IDN spoofing. I'm thinking of IDN applications, domain registries, ICANN and even IETF.
The reason I include IETF in this list is because I believe the IDN RFCs are a product of the IETF, and (1) those RFCs are not at the Standard Maturity Level yet, and (2) any discussion of IDN spoofing should probably include a discussion of the nameprep spec, since that may be something we could tweak, to help solve the problem.
If, as you say, the IETF has decided not to get into the business of deciding what can and what cannot be registered, then I suppose a forum centered on the registries (probably ICANN?) would be best.
But then I still wonder what forum is going to be discussing the IDN RFCs when they attempt to climb to the Draft Standard Maturity Level. I note that the IETF IDN WG has concluded.
Also, I saw that you published a new version of your IDN guidelines:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-reg-guidelines-06.txt
Where is this I-D to be discussed?
Thanks,
Erik
