http://iucg.org/wiki/BUD-IDNA2010 The WG/IDNABIS work being conducted on IDNA2008 (i.e. the new standard for Internationalized Domain Names) is now completed. As committed, the IUCG plans to publish an "IDNA2010 Best Usage Document" in order to explain to users how to best take advantage from the IDNA proposition and extensions. The WG text has been reviewed by the IETF/LC. Now, it has to be accepted by the IESG and should have then been deployed via several projects in the coming months. However, competition between these projects has already started. The workon@idna2010.org moderated mailing list created to that end has therefore been activated. We know that this matter is rather sensible. Therefore, the list is tyrannically moderated by its facilitator. Only technically worthy, and polite, contributions will be accepted. The target is not to publish an RFC that would standardize or recommend a practice. It is rather to document the different options that users may have and how they may use them. This will be the first time that such a multiconsensual document will be worked on at IUCG. We, therefore, expect the form of this work to also be experimental. The background is the following: * in a network architecture, multilingualization belongs to the presentation layer. * the Internet has no documented presentation layer. * yet the IDNA2008 proposition, even if not perfect, makes a lot of sense and builds on the IDNA2003 operational experience of half a billion users. * hence, the Internet presentation layer is underlying the IDNA2008 proposition. Therefore, the target is: 1. to uncover and document the Internet presentation layer. 2. to document IDNA within that presentation layer. 3. to explore the new possibilities offered by the presentation layer to IDNA and the Internet. This will be carried out in relation with the parallel work and testing being conducted on the Interplus usage architecture and ML-DNS pile. The only, but very strict, constraint that is imposed on this work is the full respect, down to the code, of the current Internet and a total transparence and neutrality to its end to end processes and services. The target is to use the Internet better. Multilinguistics is understood as the cybernetics of linguistic diversity. Multilingualization is understood as the multilinguistic function that is able to technically support an equal and neutral empowerment of every language and script. Neutrality is taken as being transparent to the technological, operational, and contextual, partial or complete, changes on the end to end path. Universalization is essentially independence from languages and scripts. Globalization is the internationalization of the media, localization of the ends, and langtagization of the content. Internationalization is the reduction of the linguistic bias down to the minimum that is permitted by the underlying language. Along the international usages, contributions will be accepted in the main languages, as soon as a moderator or a sergeant at arms has been designated for that respective language and, initially, in English and French. The convener and initial facilitator of this list is Jean-Michel Bernier de Portzamparc. To subscribe : http://idna2010.org/mailman/listinfo/workon_idna2010.org. IUCG Secretariat