[governance] Internet Users SIG on IDNA2010

[JFC Morfin]

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 at 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.

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IUCG Secretariat

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