The document has issues but I'd guess those'll be fixed as things evolve. (This being an early review.) The main issue I see is scope - I'm not clear what the document's scope is or should be. The text is very general, but the examples discussed seem rather limited, e.g. with no mention of the handling of DNS names in e.g. email, ssh, anti-spam blocklists or things like infratructure tools like cPanel. Put another way, if the scope is intended to be as broad as the text, then there're a lot more quirks to using DNS names that are in the current text. But perhaps some much more limited scope might be easier to finish and still useful. I'd encourage the authors/WG to consider that. I don't myself have any strong opinion, but I'd say that not fixing this issue might lead to much pain later;-) As a near-nit at this stage, I'd also note that various UTAH WG documents discuss handling names in TLS which is a subset of this I guess.