hi, I think we should find a time to discuss this on one of our agendas. There is a month for comments. I am not necessarily suggesting that council should comment, but as individuals we may wish to. a. Begin forwarded message:

From: Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com> Date: 19 april 2006 19.24.32 EDT To: IETF Announcement list <ietf-announce@ietf.org> Cc: iab@ietf.org, paf@cisco.com, klensin-ietf@jck.com Subject: Impending publication: draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-05

The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish

Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-05

as an Informational RFC. The chief purpose of this document is to provide a survey of issues that have been raised with regards to the deployment of IDNs and propose potential avenues for exploring and/or resolving them.

The IAB solicits comments by May 17, 2006. Please send comments to the IAB (iab@iab.org) and authors (cc'ed here), or to ietf@ietf.org.

The document can be found at

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-idn-nextsteps-05.txt

From the Abstract: This note describes issues raised by the deployment and use of Internationalized Domain Names. It describes problems both at the time of registration and those for use of those names for use in the DNS. It recommends that IETF should update the IDN related RFCs and a framework to be followed in doing so, as well as summarizing and identifying some work that is required outside the IETF. In particular, it proposes that some changes be investigated for the IDNA standard and its supporting tables, based on experience gained since those standards were completed.

Leslie Daigle, For the IAB.

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