Re: Domain check in draft-obispo-epp-idn-00.txt
Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 05:28:10PM -0500, Michael Young wrote: > are independent. However it would be in everyone's interest to reduce work, > effort and confusion by forming standards. [. . .] > So then, how do we organize to try and make some progress here? Does > everyone think we should try and organize in the first place? This list is already almost as organized as it gets at the IETF, and I'd suggest that much more organization would hinder, rather than help the effort. "More organized" than this at the IETF usually means a working group. I am not at all convinced that the structure of a WG will help, because in many cases a WG would just add overhead. I'm not even sure one could get chartered, because a BoF might not attract enough interest to get the sort of meaningful review that would be required. Moreover, the simple fact is that there are no protocol cops on the Internet. I suppose that ICANN could require (of gTLD registries) some specific RFCs be the mechanism by which this or that feature be offered in EPP. But that doesn't require additional organization within the IETF. It requires greater participation and support on the part of registries and registrars. Registries have had almost 10 years of extensions in which they could have co-ordinated with one another, but they didn't. If they want to start, brilliant; but that requires no more structure than we have now, because ultimately it's just a matter of coming to agreement about how some extension will work. I guess one thing that perhaps could be a good idea is to promote this mailing list to people outside the circle of those who originally participated in or monitored EPP development. I suspect that there are people around ICANN, for instance, who either would have an opinion about EPP extensions or who employ someone wo does, but who don't know about this list and don't follow it. Getting them involved would be a good idea. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ provreg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/provreg