SATURDAY, November 7, 2009

SUNDAY, November 8, 2009

MONDAY, November 9, 2009

TUESDAY, November 10, 2009

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009

   1. Welcome
   2. Host Presentation (with RFID Report)
   3. Itojun Service Award
   4. Reporting
       - IETF Chair Report
       - NOC Report
       - IAOC Chair & IAD Reports
       - Trust Chair Report
       - NomCom Chair Report
   5. Recognition
   6. IAOC Open Mic
   7. IESG Open Mic

THURSDAY, November 12, 2009

Agenda for the IETF 76 Technical plenary
THURSDAY, November 12, 20009. 16:30-19:30 - Orchid

[16:30-17:00]
+ Welcome

+ IRTF Chair's report
  Aaron Falk

+ IAB Chair's report
  Olaf Kolkman

[17:00-19:10]
 + Internationalization in Names and Other Identifiers
   See Below
  
[19:10-19:30]
+ Open microphone session




IETF 76 Technical Plenary, 1630-1930 Thursday 12th November 2009.

Internationalization in Names and Other Identifiers


This technical plenary can be seen as following on from the plenary at
IETF68 on March 2007 in Prague on "Internationalization and Internet
Engineering" and builds on an old realization that smooth and
interoperable functioning of the Internet depends on text strings
being interpreted in the same way by all systems connected to it. RFC
2277 (IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages, January 1998) and
RFC 5198 (Unicode Format for Network Interchange, March 2008) discuss
the use of international text in Internet protocols.

Internationalization of protocol elements is ongoing work within the
IETF (e.g. IDNABIS WG, EAI WG, IRI BOF) and deployment of these
technologies is ongoing. For example, there has been much publicity
and excitement around the announcement that ICANN plans to start
issuing international text country-code top level domains soon.

The issues and complexities of handling international text affect many
of our protocols, most Internet users, and many IETF Working
Groups. However, the issues are complicated and there is not always a
shared understanding even among experts in the field.

This IETF Technical Plenary presentation will explore examples of the
kinds of things that can go wrong with internationalized text, and
examples of cases where even when things go "right", the result may
still not be what the average human might expect or want. The IAB is
currently working on draft-iab-idn-encoding, with the goal of
describing some of the important issues and problems, and giving
guidance for future protocol design to reduce such problems.

This plenary is a working session of the IAB where we want to share
our experiences and learn from yours.

FRIDAY, November 13, 2009