Hi,
back in Pittsburg, there was a wg concensus to have a design team that
will come up with a proposal to the working group about a possible
converged solution among all the current proposals. The co-chairs, with the
blessing of the ADs, decided to split the problem space in two (divide to
conquer!) and to have two design teams with different expertise and
membership: one on the protocol (i.e what happens either on the wire or on
the app side if ACE chosen), one on the "nameprep" (codepoints, case
folding, etc.).
While the formation of the design teams took longer than expected, this
mail is to announce the start of those design teams.
These design teams will work on a focused way, but there is no intent
whatsoever to "bypass" the working group. If someone feels we are bypassing
the working group, he is wrong. The design teams will report to the working
group. The design teams will be working using a mailing list which will be
open for cross-posting: so if someone feels appropriate to send a specific
comment to the design team, they can do. But, think also that, unless I'm
wrong, all design teams members are members of the idn main mailing list.
The following people are on the design teams:
protocol design team:
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as observers: co-chairs, ADs and idn wg technical advisors (if they wish)
nameprep design team
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the last four being identified by the unicode consortium as their "nominee"
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as observers: co-chairs, ADs and idn wg technical advisors (if they wish)
Design teams will organise themselves. An editor might be chosen if found
useful and appropriate.
Design teams are expected to prepare at least a report for San Diego, but
more preferably a proposed solution by that time.
Regards, Marc & James, co-chairs, idn wg.
Marc Blanchet
Viag�nie inc.
tel: 418-656-9254
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