Internet DRAFT - draft-iucg-idna2008-ietf-lc
draft-iucg-idna2008-ietf-lc
Network Working Group Jean-Francois C. Morfin
Internet-Draft Intlnet
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Abstract
The IDNA2008 document set is now under IETF/LC. The memo publishes
the position of the non-WG iucg@ietf.org (Internet User Contributing
Group) mailing list that its facilitator can neither present nor
discuss during that Last Call.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction................................................... 3
2. Complementary objectives....................................... 3
3. The contribution of these users................................ 3
4. IDNAPLUS....................................................... 3
5. The Interplus facilitation architecture........................ 4
6. Security considerations........................................ 5
7. IANA considerations............................................ 5
8. References..................................................... 5
Requirements notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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1. Introduction
The discussion on IDNA2008 was followed by several linguistic
organizations. Among them, French speakers of various origins formed
a motivated group and rallied the france@large IDN center of
expertise and received much political and qualified support
throughout Francophonie. This resulted in a parallel effort to that
of the Arabic League IDNA list, of an internal list of Microsoft, and
may be other undisclosed ones.
2. Complementary objectives
This French speakers group first indentified, along with the WG
Chair, that they had two different yet complimentary objectives.
While consistency with the rest of the Internet architecture was the
first thing of interest for the Chair, @larges were first interested
in facilitating a response to the needs of the users. In the longer
term, they also were interested in innovation continuity towards the
Intersem (the semantic and multilingual Internet). However, @larges
concluded that facilitating a response to user needs was the best way
to strictly respect and protect the architecture and stability of the
Internet.
3. The contribution of these users
They, therefore, committed themselves to strictly respect the
Charter, dedicatedly help the WG process, and further document a 100%
conformant IDNA2008 extension that responds to their evaluation of
the users' needs (qualified as ML-DNS, multi-layer DNS). They thereby
created and maintained the http://wikidna.org site to that end. The
@larges, because they are mere Internet lead users, not full-time
engineers, some misunderstandings followed. With everyone's goodwill,
the iucg@ietf.org non-WG mailing list has been created and its
initiators have documented and discussed its charter, by using the
IDNA debate as a test-bed. The general IETF mission [RFC3935] is "to
produce high quality, relevant technical and engineering documents
that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet in
such a way as to make the Internet work better". The Internet Users
Contributing Group's intent is for such documents span and
interoperate within a network external user facilitation area, in
such a way as to "make the Internet used better". Accordingly, the
IUCG has a lead user vision of the same Internet architecture that
should fruitfully complement the IETF engineer vision.
4. IDNAPLUS
This is why the IUCG adheres to the IDNA2008 set of documents, but
not entirely with their point of view. However, it considers that the
result is flexible enough to match the way its participants
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understand the WG charter. Therefore, it produced, as committed, an
I_D to document its own "IDNAPLUS" proposal.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iucg-punyplus-02. This proposal:
* is a transparent open solution that can accommodate additional
agents and applications.
* only concerns the removable introduction of a single additional
code point (UMI, uppercase metadata indicator), indicating that
the next code point in an xn--label must be restored in uppercase
form.
* is made within the "Interplus" facilitation system framework that
the IUCG is exploring (plus = plugged layers user system). The
Interplus context is succinctly introduced in that quoted Draft.
The IDNA working group @large participants felt that their proposal
fully belongs to IDNA, could be integrated into IDNA2008, will be
transparently used by the Registries that need to take into account
complete case sensitivity and access to new naming services, and for
an ambient solution to dispose of the pollution of the linguistic
namespace.
5. The Interplus facilitation architecture
However, they fully understand that the Interplus:
* intends to address a diversity and new expectations that were not
supported by the internet legacy.
* is based on a more extended vision of the existing architecture of
the Internet that the document on mapping only partly considers.
* some of thecapabilities of this architecture are of little or no
use today (classes, presentation, inter-application,
pseudo-network application, and ubiquity layers) that should be
examined further.
* calls for full documentation (that can now be studied and
produced) and positive IETF and market feedback through community
full-scale testing.
Their intention is to continue the study, documentation, and
development of the Interplus facilitation architecture, and test it
through three projects for its evaluation and possible
standardization:
* Projet.FRA: for a francophone relational space focusing on the
support of semantic addressing via IDNAPLUS and for the
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organization of its namespace as the taxonomy of an open ontology.
* Multilinc: for an open multi-sociolinguistic relational space
focusing on the multilinguistical issues (multilinguistics is the
cybernetics of linguistic diversity), relations to norms and
standards, and mecalanguages.
* PERFIDES/PERFIDA: technical relational space focusing on personal
RFID applications, namespace security, privacy protection, and
IDv6 (IPv6 User ID) related value-added.
6. Security considerations
There is no direct security consideration.
7. IANA considerations
There is no IANA consideration.
8. References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3935] Alvestrand, H., "A Mission Statement for the IETF", RFC
3935, October 2004
Author's address
Jean-Francois C. Morfin
INTLNET
23 rue Saint Honore
Versailles
78000 Versailles
France
Phone: (33.1) 39 50 05 10
Email: jefsey@jefsey.com
URI: http://intlnet.org
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