Judging by the current goals and milestones - we're dragging the chain a
little...
There are 24 proposals to get through, and so far there has been activity on
one.
Hope no one is hanging by the thumbs waiting for a working BIND release....
It will be magic when it comes, but it will be a few years yet I think. In
the meantime - there doesn't seem a whole lot of point in selling MLDNs.
Indeed, we probably _shouldn't_ be selling them, certainly not without very
clear riders.
Goals and Milestones:
Done First draft of the requirements document
Done Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide
Done Second version of the requirement document
Done Final discussion on the requirement document
Aug 00 Req document wg last call
Sep 00 First draft of comparaison document
Dec 00 Final discussion of comparaison document
Dec 00 Protocol RFC first draft
Jan 01 Comparaison document wg last call
Mar 01 Protocol RFC second draft
Mar 01 Transition RFC first draft
Jun 01 Protocol RFC wg last call
Jun 01 Transition RFC second draft
Sep 01 Transition RFC wg last call
Internet-Drafts:
Requirements of Internationalized Domain Names (29160 bytes)
Comparison of Internationalized Domain Name Proposals (26918 bytes)
RACE: Row-based ASCII Compatible Encoding for IDN (24819 bytes)
Internationalized domain names using EDNS (IDNE) (17590 bytes)
Preparation of Internationalized Host Names (50037 bytes)
Using the Universal Character Set in the Domain Name System (UDNS) (19570
bytes)
Architecture of Internationalized Domain Name System (22138 bytes)
The DNSII Multilingual Domain Name Protocol (35759 bytes)
Internationalized Host Names Using Resolvers and Applications (IDNRA) (14508
bytes)
DNSII Multilingual Domain Name Resolution (39244 bytes)
Simple ASCII Compatible Encoding (SACE) (8911 bytes)
Internationalizing Host Names In Applications (IDNA) (11210 bytes)
Han Ideograph (CJK) for Internationalized Domain Names (21610 bytes)
DNSII Transitional Reflexive ASCII Compatible Encoding (TRACE) (27076 bytes)
BRACE: Bi-mode Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding for IDN version 0.1.2
(33868 bytes)
Handling versions of internationalized domain names protocols (11117 bytes)
LACE: Length-based ASCII Compatible Encoding for IDN (31067 bytes)
Virtually Internationalized Domain Names (VIDN) (28796 bytes)
Internationalized PTR Resource Record (IPTR) (21115 bytes)
Japanese characters in multilingual domain name label (6361 bytes)
Proposal for a determining process of ACE identifier (8843 bytes)
DUDE: Differential Unicode Domain Encoding (20888 bytes)
UTF-6 - Yet Another ASCII-Compatible Encoding for IDN (15837 bytes)
Internationalized Domain Names in URIs and IRIs (10700 bytes)
bob