Re: [Idna-update] [Ext] FWD: Expiration impending: <draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-01.txt>

[Kim Davies <[e-mail]>]

Quoting John C Klensin on Monday March 05, 2018:
> 
> Given that there has been no discussion of this draft in the
> last few months, that there seems to be no interest in it in the
> IESG (although we have not pressed hard on it specifically), and
> that the possibly-complementary
> draft-freytag-troublesome-characters draft has already expired,
> I'm just going to let this expire unless someone gives me a good
> reason why not in the next few minutes (if a revision is not
> posted today, the draft will expire because, without special
> permission, nothing can be posted between tomorrow and the start
> of IETF).
> 
> I hope no one interprets this as complete lack of interest in
> pursuing IDN issues, or even clarification of the IDNA
> standards, in the IETF.

With the expiry of these efforts, I am concerned more generally that
the standing IAB guidance in
https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2015-2/iab-statement-on-identifiers-and-unicode-7-0-0/
has kept the pre-computed IDNA tables published at IANA downgraded
to Unicode 6.3.0 for a number of years. It seems appropriate to revisit
publishing tables against contemporary Unicode editions if there is no
active work on publishing clarifying RFCs in this regard.

kim