Hello, in a discussion with some GP members, there was a question about the status of an initiative in IETF named ‘lager’ (stands for LAbel GEneration Rules). This initiative is to create a working group to work on a IETF standards-track specification for LGRs, based on draft-davies-idntables. The IESG is going to discuss it this week. Below is the relevant info. Obviously, you are very invited to participate in the working group. A mailing list has been setup to discuss. Marc. ======== mailing list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lager charter: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lager/charter/ Charter for proposed Working Group Domain registries, particularly those implementing IDNA (RFC 5890 et.al), usually maintain a set of criteria (or "ruleset") that governs permissible labels allowed for registration, such as [IANAIDNTABLES]. These rulesets are commonly a mixture of eligible code points along with contextual criteria that must be met concerning the positioning of certain code points. Some registries also specify rules regarding variant labels and how they are to be handled. Domain registries commonly need to share these rules, but there is no interoperable format that can be used that can support many common use cases. This group seeks to produce such a format, which will enable re-use and simpler implementation of rulesets in registries. A comprehensive format specification has been developed, named Label Generation Rules, primarily to support the rules to be used for the DNS Root Zone [Davies]. This group will use this specification as a starting point to develop a common XML language that provides a superset of functionality of current specifications [RFC 3743, RFC 4290, et.al], along with other known use cases. This single format is expected to supersede existing formats, and form the basis for future rulesets used at different levels of the DNS hierarchy. Work items: - Standard Track Specification of the Label Generation Rules References: [Davies] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-idntables/ [IANAIDNTABLES] https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables Proposed milestones Date Milestone Dec 2015 Send the Label Generation Rules specification to the IESG draft-davies-idntables _______________________________________________ lgr mailing list lgr@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/lgr