Fwd: RFC 3490 on Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications
(IDNA)
Sean M. Burke
sburke at cpan.org
Fri Mar 7 16:39:00 CET 2003
Of interest:
>To: rfc-dist at rfc-editor.org
>Cc: rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org
>From: rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org
>Subject: [rfc-dist] RFC 3490 on Internationalizing Domain Names in
>Applications (IDNA)
>
>A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>
> RFC 3490
> Title: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
>[...] URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3490.txt
>
>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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