Making progress on IDN

IDN WG participants,

In a separate note, I've expressed severe disagreement with Dave
Crocker's "stop discussing this, it is off topic" notes and
comments.  But I am in agreement with him as considering much of
the current discussion to be a useless waste of time.

With the understanding that the following is strictly my
personal opinion...

The charter fairly clearly does not extend to "fixing" mail, or
URLs, or HTTP, or Unicode.  Arguments that the proposed solution
won't work properly in those applications may be relevant, but
please either make new ones or see below.

Substantively, most of the current discussions are going around
in circles we have toured before.  They have either gotten
nowhere or been rejected.  Repeating the arguments doesn't
contribute to understanding, and doesn't seem to be convincing
anyone, nor does repeating explanations of why particular ideas
are infeasible or inappropriate seem to be convincing anyone.
That is a fairly strong argument for stopping the discussions.
It is, perhaps, an even stronger argument for not responding
when people try to bring the same old arguments up over and over
again.

Procedurally, the Co-chairs have sent the specs off to the IESG,
presumably with an assertion of consensus.    I am not
recommending this in any way, but, if people believe that
assertion is incorrect and no consensus exists or that the