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Re: [Idna-update] Last Call: <draft-freytag-lager-variant-rules-05.txt> (Variant Rules) to Informational RFC

"Paul Hoffman" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 18 April 2017 16:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idna-update] Last Call: <draft-freytag-lager-variant-rules-05.txt> (Variant Rules) to Informational RFC
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On 18 Apr 2017, at 7:04, Vint Cerf wrote:

> if this is published, I hope it is made clear that this is not a 
> standards
> recommendation endorsed by the IDNA working group.

It says "Informational" right at the top of the document, and that's the 
best we can do for the RFC Series.

There is no IDNA Working Group any more, so there is no way to say that 
it was not endorsed by this WG. The document is, however, intending to 
be an IETF consensus document.

--Paul Hoffman

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