RE: IRI BOF followup

Sorry for the frequent updates. I added a sentence in response to
Shawn's request to call out explicit BIDI review by native speakers.



(also updated 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/area/app/trak/wiki/IriWorkGoals 

Overview
========
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 distribution
of the workload and allow more focused reviews. 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 coordinate with the W3C working 
   groups on HTML, XML Core, and Internationalization to ensure 
   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 coordinate with the IETF 
  IDNA working group to assure acceptability. 
 * Explicit review by experts on (and native speakers) of RTL
   languages, of the recommendations for BIDI languages, 
   is required.

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
=======================
    *  draft-duerst-iri-bis 

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


Schedule
========
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
======================================================
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 20:22:23 UTC