On May 19, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > We're trying to balance two things here: (1) we want to get as much > input as possible from current and potential customers of stringprep or > newprep/stringprepbis/whatever, but (2) we want to scope the WG tightly > enough that it doesn't have a mandate to work on "anything related to > internationalized strings". I read this, and the proposed charter as meeting my needs: I'm not working with a current stringprep profile, but want to define something like a stringprep profile. I now don't want to use stringprep as is, but it's framework approach is what I need. I'm willing to put effort into such work. I also whole-heartedly agree that we don't want this working group to be "anything related to non-ASCII strings". > In an email exchange with Marc and Alexey Melnikov last week, I proposed > adding ... > > Although the group will seek input from and may provide advice to > "customers" working on other technologies, it will prioritize work > on the above-listed stringprep profiles and will take on additional > tasks as official milestones only after rechartering. Wait: That seems like a step back from the original charter. That seems to exclude any work on a "stringprepbis" or other generally useful draft. If so, I'm left a bit in the cold. It seems to me that while the WG should examine the particulars of the stringprep profiles under concern one by one - that wouldn't be the way we'd want to update them. Instead we'd want to either come up with a way to bring stringprep as a concept forward, or replace it with something similar, so that all the profiles under examination would have a consistent treatment in "updating". (Though I admit the likelihood of exceptions.) I don't think this kind of approach should be out of scope from the get go. - Mark P.S.: I've simply replied all, but should this discussion be just newprep only, or do all those other lists want/need to be in on it? Mark Lentczner Sr. Systems Architect Technology Integration Linden Lab markl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Zero Linden zero.linden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf