Name: draft-klensin-idn-tld-04
Title: National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names
State: Active
Authors: John Klensin
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-11-12
In the context of work on internationalizing the Domain Name System (DNS),
there have been extensive discussions about 'multilingual' or
whose predominant language is not written in a Roman-based script. This
document reviews some of the motivations for such domains and the
constraints that the DNS imposes. It then suggests an alternative, local
translation, that may solve a superset of the problem while avoiding
protocol changes, serious deployment delays, and other difficulties. The
suggestion utilizes a localization technique in applications to permit any
TLD to be accessed using the vocabulary and characters of any language. It
is not restricted to language- or country-specific 'multilingual' TLDs in
the language(s) and script(s) of that country.
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