RE: IRI BOF followup

Yet another update to make this read OK in a standalone document (From: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/DraftIriCharter)


DRAFT IRI Working Group Charter
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See also:
    * Goals for IRI work in IETF  http://trac.tools.ietf.org/aera/app/trak/wiki/IriWorkGoals 

Overview:
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This working group will produce

    * A new version of RFC 3987: "Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)"
    * A new version of RFC 4395: "Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes" 

The new version of RFC 3987 may be split into separate documents, if, in the opinion of the chair(s), it would facilitate distributing editing workload and focus review. For example, the following breakdown has been suggested:

    * Handling of Internationalized domain names in IRIs (BCP)
    * Internationalization Considerations in IRIs (guidelines for BIDI, character ranges to avoid, special considerations) (BCP)
    * Syntax, parsing, comparison of IRIs (Standards track) 

The working group starts with a relatively mature update to RFC 3987 in preparation; the primary focus of the group is to resolve conflicting uses, requirements and best practices for internationalized URLs/URIs/IRIs and various other forms, among many specifications and committees, while moving toward consistent use of IRIs among the wide range of Internet applications that use them. In particular:

    * The IRI specification(s) must (continue to) be suitable for normative reference with Web and XML standards from W3C specifications. The group should liaison with the W3C working groups on HTML, XML Core, and Internationalization to insure acceptability (see HTML Editor requirements at end of referenced 'goals' list).
    * The IRI specification(s) should be follow best practices for domain names. The group should liaison with the IETF IDNA working group to assure acceptability. 

The Working Group will examine at least one and possibly more URI/IRI schemes to check that the new specification(s) are appropriate for existing schemes. Schemes suggested for review include http:, pop:, imap:, xmpp:, mailto:, and sip:.

Changes to RFC 3986 ("Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax") are explicitly out of scope of this charter, and may only be considered with a charter update.


Current Internet Drafts:
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    *  draft-duerst-iri-bis 

Administrative:
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BOF Chairs: Ted Hardie and Pete Resnick
Mailing list:  public-iri@w3.org
Responsible AD: Alexey Melnikov



Schedule:
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January 2010
    Additional update of Internet drafts by editor(s) 
February 2010
    Review of Internet Drafts, directions during W3C and IETF 
May 2010
    Working group Last Call of all documents 
June 2010
    Publish IRI documents as RFCs (BCP, standards track, as appropriate) 

Additional documents for review and groups for liaison:
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For this working group to succeed, agreement of the affected communities, including the following, is required:

IDNA (requirements for domain names in identifiers)
Specifications:
    *  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idnabis-defs 
Being prepared by:
    * IETF IDNABIS working group  http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/idnabis-charter.html 

HTTPBIS definition of http: URI scheme
Specification:
    *  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging, section 9.2 on HTTP URI scheme 
Being prepared by:
    * HTTPBIS working group tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/charters 

Unicode Consortium
Work on IDNA, TR 46.
    *  http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/ Draft of Unicode consortium report on IDNA 

HTML5 definition of "URLs"
Specification:
    * HTML5 definition of URL  http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#urls
          o See Issue 56  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/56 
Being prepared by:
    * W3C HTML Working Group  http://www.w3.org/html/wg/ 
    * WHATWG  http://www.whatwg.org/ 

W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
    *  http://www.w3.org/International/core/ 
Sponsor and coordinating body for W3C activity on IRIs

Received on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 02:09:26 UTC