I write to support the publication of this document, though I do not personally believe it needs to be at Proposed Standard, so I would also support its publication as Informational.
Making a concise summary of the history that led to this document is beyond my powers of summarization, but a part of that history was a request to the author, as the Designated Expert for an IANA registry, to review the updates to the Unicode Code Points in the releases between Unicode 6.3 and Unicode 11. It was his decision as the expert to seek public comments on that review by publishing that document and seeking consensus for it. I believe the document does a good job of describing the changes and reflecting the reasoning behind his decisions as expert. I also believe the result, the updating of the tables to Unicode 11, is appropriate at this time based on the existing documents in the IDNA 2008 set, the IAB stream principles document, and the Unicode releases.
There are, obviously, a lot of the things that want doing in this realm, and it is clear that this document does not solve all the problems which were pointed out in LUCID or other reflections on the IETF internationalization efforts. Holding it responsible for that, however, would be a misreading of the scope of both the document and the work of the expert. I encourage the Area Directors to continue to work on the larger problem, but to do so through other means than updates to this specific documents..
regards,
Ted Hardie
(no hats)
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 6:31 AM The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the
following document: - 'IDNA2008 and Unicode 11.0.0'
<draft-faltstrom-unicode11-07.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final
comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2019-03-05. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of
the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
Abstract
This document describes the changes between Unicode 6.3.0 and Unicode
11.0.0 in the context of IDNA2008. It further suggests a path
forward for the IETF to ensure IDNA2008 follows the evolution of the
Unicode Standard.
Some changes have been made in the Unicode Standard related to the
algorithm IDNA2008 specifies. IDNA2008 allows adding exceptions to
the algorithm for backward compatibility; however, this document
makes no such changes. Thus this document requests that IANA update
the tables to Unicode 11.
The document also recomments that all DNS registries continue the
practice of calculating a repertoire using conservatism and inclusion
principles.
TO BE REMOVED AT TIME OF PUBLICATION AS AN RFC:
This document is discussed on the i18nrp@xxxxxxxx mailing list of the
IETF.
The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-unicode11/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-faltstrom-unicode11/ballot/
No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
The document contains these normative downward references.
See RFC 3967 for additional information:
rfc6912: Principles for Unicode Code Point Inclusion in Labels in the DNS (Informational - IAB stream)
draft-freytag-troublesome-characters: Those Troublesome Characters: A Registry of Unicode Code Points Needing Special Consideration When Used in Network Identifiers (None - )
rfc5894: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Background, Explanation, and Rationale (Informational - IETF stream)
rfc5895: Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008 (Informational - Independent Submission Editor stream)
