Nope. The IRTF is the Internet Research Task Force, which is a place that work that can't actually properly be considered for standardization can go. The real point (IYAM) of the IRTF is to get academic researchers to contribute vaguely at the IETF without having to geek out.
Right. It seems to me that finding out whether we understand any scripts well enough to offer advice on how to create good names and good fuzzy matches is considerably beyond what we currently know how to do, so the IRTF is where that sort of thing lives. IRTF groups are hit and miss. I ran one about spam which was a complete failure due to non-overlap of people who were willing to do work and people who understood the issues. Some RGs on exotic networking have done interesting work. Regards, John Levine, john.levine@standcore.com Standcore LLC