Agree, thanks for forwarding Mark This was a very cogent statement of affairs relative to the closing out of known IDN issues (or our current inability to do so).
I agree with Edmon in that I think the UA effort should strive to be a catalyst here.
--Rich
From:
<ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Edmon Chung <edmon@registry.asia>
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 7:11 AM
To: 'Mark Svancarek' <marksv@microsoft.com>, "UA-discuss@icann.org" <UA-discuss@icann.org>
Cc: 'Shawn Steele' <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] FW: I-D Action: draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-00.txt
Thanks for forwarding this Mark,
This seems to be something useful for UA, perhaps we should work with the IDN team at ICANN (along with the communities networked from the LGR work) to see where we can best support.
Edmon
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Sent: Sunday, 12 March 2017 12:58 PM
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Subject: [UA-discuss] FW: I-D Action: draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-00.txt
FYI, too much stuff from John for me to dig into this a.m.
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From: Idna-update [mailto:idna-update-bounces@alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John
C Klensin
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:25 AM
Subject: FWD: I-D Action: draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-00.txt
Hi.
For the information of those who may be watching this list but not the IETF
announcement one...
Asmus Freytag and I have started to put together a draft that addresses a problem
with the IDNA2008 specs, specifically that we failed to make the responsibility of
registries to define code point and label acceptability rules that were considerably
more narrow (and better understood by them) than the full set of labels allowed by
RFC 5891-5893. It doesn't actually change anything because that requirement is in
the existing specs; it just makes (or tries to make) the requirements painfully clear to
those who have been missing or misreading them.
It also provides an explicit link between IDNA2008 requirements and ICANN work on
repertoires and label generation rules without endorsing that work as more than one
thoughtful approach that might be examined for either reference or inspiration.
Comments (obviously) welcome.
For anyone who might wonder, this document avoids the more controversial
IDNA2008 issues including:
* Multiple suggestions that we should add emoji, a subset of code points with
General Category "So", to the list of code
points allowed by IDNA. There are many reasons to not do that
but it seems clear that, at some point, the IETF will need to either document those
reasons or make the change. Volunteers to put together or work on a document
would be welcome.
* The non-decomposing code point problem, formerly (and
incorrectly) known as the Hamza problem. There has been no
discernable activity on this since the IAB Statement and LUCID BOF almost exactly
two years ago. I've further updated the working copy of draft-klensin-idna-5892upd-
unicode70 to cover additional cases and issues, but, in part because it is clearly
inappropriate for a quick-patch individual submission, have been advised to not post
it until we have a plan to make progress.
So far, there is no such plan.
* The (IMO, growing) problem of multiple and inconsistent specifications for IDNs
and IDN handling, with different ones being used in different higher-level protocols
and areas of the Internet. The use of different specifications and definitions creates
opportunities for user and implementer confusion, interoperability difficulties, domain
names that cannot be resolved under some circumstances, and various sorts of
attacks.
The specifications involved include IDNA2008, IDNA2003, assorted local "updates"
to IDNA2003 that use versions of Stringprep locally updated to assorted versions of
Unicode, and the various versions of UTR#46. The latest version of the latter
explicitly
allows emoji along with other symbols. A few months ago, I
suggested to the IAB I18N program that a document be produced that at least
pointed out the problems associated with multiple divergent specifications, but the
idea got no traction.
It appears to me that, although almost everyone agrees that IDNs, and well- and
clearly-functional IDNs, are important, virtually no one is willing to do the hard work,
at least unless they are being supported by ICANN (disclosure: I am not) or
organizations whose interests lie in selling names, preferably as many of them as
possible (I have no support from any of them either). Until and unless that changes,
I don't see much prospect for getting those other issues addressed in a way that
might lead to consensus documents.
john
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Date: Saturday, March 11, 2017 07:22 -0800
From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
Subject: I-D Action: draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-00.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Internationalized Domain Names in
Applications (IDNA): Registry Restrictions and Recommendations
Authors : John C Klensin
Asmus Freytag
Filename : draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-00.txt
Pages : 10
Date : 2017-03-11
Abstract:
The IDNA specifications for internationalized domain names
combine rules that determine the labels that are allowed in
the DNS without violating the protocol itself and an
assignment of responsibility, consistent with earlier
specifications, for determining the labels that are allowed
in particular zones. Conformance to IDNA by registries and
other implementations requires both parts. Experience strongly suggests that the
language describing those
responsibility was insufficiently clear to promote safe and
interoperable use of the specifications and that more details
and some specific examples would have been helpful. This
specification updates the earlier ones to provide that
guidance and to correct some technical errors in the descriptions. It does not alter
the protocols and rules
themselves in any way.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
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