[ChineseGP] [lgr] regarding IETF lager wg-to-be

Marc Blanchet marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca
Mon Jun 22 22:03:50 UTC 2015


Hello,
  in a discussion with some GP members, there was a question about the 
status of an initiative in IETF named ‘lager’ (stands for LAbel 
GEneration Rules). This initiative is to create a working group to work 
on a IETF standards-track specification for LGRs, based on 
draft-davies-idntables.  The IESG is going to discuss it this week. 
Below is the relevant info. Obviously, you are very invited to 
participate in the working group.
A mailing list has been setup to discuss.

Marc.

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mailing list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lager
charter: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lager/charter/

Charter for proposed Working Group
Domain registries, particularly those implementing IDNA (RFC 5890
et.al), usually maintain a set of criteria (or "ruleset") that governs
permissible labels allowed for registration, such as [IANAIDNTABLES].
These rulesets are commonly a mixture of eligible code points along
with contextual criteria that must be met concerning the positioning of
certain code points. Some registries also specify rules regarding
variant labels and how they are to be handled. Domain registries
commonly need to share these rules, but there is no interoperable format
that can be used that can support many common use cases. This group
seeks to produce such a format, which will enable re-use and simpler
implementation of rulesets in registries.

A comprehensive format specification has been developed, named Label
Generation Rules, primarily to support the rules to be used for the
DNS Root Zone [Davies]. This group will use this specification as a
starting point to develop a common XML language that provides a superset
of functionality of current specifications
[RFC 3743, RFC 4290, et.al], along with other known use cases. This
single format is expected to supersede existing formats, and form the
basis for future rulesets used at different levels of the DNS hierarchy.

Work items:
- Standard Track Specification of the Label Generation Rules

References:
[Davies] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davies-idntables/
[IANAIDNTABLES] https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables

Proposed milestones
Date	Milestone
Dec 2015	Send the Label Generation Rules specification to the IESG
draft-davies-idntables


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