Name: draft-hoffman-rfc3490bis-02
Title: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
State: Pending
Authors: Patrik Faltstrom, Paul Hoffman, Adam Costello
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-04-14
Until now, there has been no standard method for domain names to use
characters outside the ASCII repertoire. This document defines
internationalized domain names (IDNs) and a mechanism called
Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) for handling them in
a standard fashion. IDNs use characters drawn from a large repertoire
(Unicode), but IDNA allows the non-ASCII characters to be represented using
only the ASCII characters already allowed in so- called host names today.
This backward-compatible representation is required in existing protocols
like DNS, so that IDNs can be introduced with no changes to the existing
infrastructure. IDNA is only meant for processing domain names, not free
text.
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