Marc Blanchet writes: > We will be sending the documents for IESG consideration for Proposed > Standard on March 11th 2002. That's outrageous. IDNA has received strong written objections from at least fifteen regular WG participants and _hundreds_ of other people. IDNA will cause a tremendous amount of damage, including bounced email, web link failures, widespread user confusion, and massive costs---much higher than necessary---for software development and deployment. You say that you are obliged to ignore all these objections because the IDN WG has to _do something_. But the IETF procedures don't say ``It's okay to make an incredibly destructive modification to the Internet protocol suite if you have to _do something_.'' I hope that the IDN WG can settle on a safe course of action. However, until that happens, we will have to stick to the status quo. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
