Re: IRI draft refresh and timeline

Hello Addison, others,

Here's an update.

I just produced
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-bis-03.txt

The tracker (at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/idtracker/draft-duerst-iri-bis/?)
still shows this as 'dead', but I have taken some action to get this fixed.

See some more comments below.

At 14:28 08/07/01, Martin Duerst wrote:
>
>Hello Addison, others,
>
>At 02:38 08/06/27, Phillips, Addison wrote:
>>Hello Martin,
>>
>>(on behalf of the I18N Core WG)
>>
>>The Core WG has noticed that the current IRI draft has expired.
>
>I did so, too :-(. Well, actually, I got a notice.
>
>>We'd like 
>>to know what the status is of a refresh on the document;
>
>Currently, I'm waiting for a reply from Michel Suignard with
>his new coordinates. I can't publish a new draft with his
>old (Microsoft) address. I have contacted him, but I haven't
>yet heard back from him. If you have a way to ping him, that'd
>be appreciated.
>
>>whether there is 
>>anything the working group can do to help you with this work;
>
>A lot, for example:
>
>- Reviewing the whole draft and sending comments (I think there's
>  probably some 'dead wood' in there that from today's perspective
>  may no longer be needed, and so on). Even if a reviewer things
>  everything is fine, saying so is helpful.
>- Contribute to
>  http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/spec-use-survey.html
>- Propose wording for open issues.
>- Help getting various subcommunities  (e.g. HTML5, XML,...)
>  integrated into the Web/Internet rather than diverging.
>- Help with creating IRI tests for different specs (e.g. XML,
>  SVG, Atom,...). The framework I use is written in Ruby, so
>  being able to understand Ruby helps, or somebody may take
>  this as an opportunity to learn Ruby (which is really fun!).
>- Help with implementations (it would e.g. be great if somebody
>  tweaked/rewrote the W3C link checker to finally respect IRIs;
>  I'd be able to help only if I can rewrite it in Ruby).

- Review http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/ for missing
  spaces. I lost a lot of them, not sure which tool to blame.
  I think I have put back in most of them, but if you see one
  missing, tell me (or fix it yourself if you can).

>>and what you 
>>see as barriers to completing this work.
>
>- The work on IDNAbis: I don't think we need to wait for that
>  to complete, but then we can only say so for sure when it's
>  completed :-(.

Well, actually for bidi, I think it would make a lot of sense if
what IDNA did and what IRIs did were aligned. The current IDNA
proposal is at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idnabis-bidi-01.txt

It takes a somewhat different, and more strict, approach to
bidi limitations. Comments on that draft in and by itself
are also appreciated.

Regards,    Martin.

>- The tendency of various subcommunities (e.g. HTML5, XML,...)
>  of the Web/Internet community to put their local issues at
>  the top, rather than understanding that a there is a huge
>  benefit in true common infrastructure (such as URIs/IRIs).
>- Lack of reviews/comments/text contributions.
>
>>As you know, there is a lot of 
>>interest in the XML community in getting this work finalized.
>
>I know. Maybe too much interest, and somewhat in the wrong direction.
>
>>We'd also like to request a more regular update from you on progress with 
>>IRI. Perhaps once a month or so you could join our teleconference or maybe 
>>just send us an email status when there are important events?
>
>There is the IRI mailing list, public-iri@w3.org. I hope everybody
>with interest in IRIs is subscribed to it, it's very low volume
>(I wish the volume were somewhat higher).
>
>I can of course update you on important events when they happen,
>but they do not happen that often :-(.
>
>>Please let us know.
>
>Hope this helps.     Regards,    Martin.
>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Addison
>>
>>[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/06/25-core-minutes.html#item06
>>
>>Addison Phillips
>>Globalization Architect -- Lab126
>>
>>Internationalization is not a feature.
>>It is an architecture.
>
>
>#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
>#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp      mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp    


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

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