Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2008-02-07
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
James Seng <
[email protected]>
Marc Blanchet <
[email protected]>
Applications Area Director(s):
Chris Newman <
[email protected]>
Lisa Dusseault <
[email protected]>
Applications Area Advisor:
Lisa Dusseault <
[email protected]>
Technical Advisor(s):
Harald Alvestrand <
[email protected]>
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Description of Working Group:
The goal of the group is to specify the requirements for
internationalized access to domain names and to specify a standards
track protocol based on the requirements.
The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing
this and what methods are feasible given the technical impact they
will
have on the use of such names by humans as well as application
programs, as well as the impact on other users and administrators of
the domain name system.
A fundamental requirement in this work is to not disturb the current
use
and operation of the domain name system, and for the DNS to continue to
allow any system anywhere to resolve any domain name.
The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should
administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.
The group must identify consequences to the current deployed DNS
infrastructure, the protocols and the applications as well as
transition
scenarios, where applicable.
The WG will actively ensure good communication with interested groups
who are studying the problem of internationalized access to domain
names.
The Action Item(s) for the Working Group are
1. An Informational RFC specifying the requirements for providing
Internationalized access to domain names. The document should
provide guidance for development solutions to this problem, taking
localized (e.g. writing order) and related operational issues into
consideration.
2. An Informational RFC or RFC's documenting the various proposals and
Implementations of Internationalization (i18n) of Domain Names. The
document(s) should also provide a technical evaluation of the
proposals by the Working Group.
3. A standards track specification on access to internationalized
domain
names including specifying any transition issues.
Goals and Milestones:
Done First draft of the requirements document
Done Presentation and discussion at IETF-Adelaide
Done Second version of the requirement document
Done Final discussion on the requirement document
Aug 2000 Req document wg last call
Sep 2000 First draft of comparaison document
Dec 2000 Final discussion of comparaison document
Dec 2000 Protocol RFC first draft
Jan 2001 Comparaison document wg last call
Mar 2001 Protocol RFC second draft
Mar 2001 Transition RFC first draft
Jun 2001 Protocol RFC wg last call
Jun 2001 Transition RFC second draft
Sep 2001 Transition RFC wg last call
Internet-Drafts:
No Current Internet-Drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC3490 PS Mar 2003 Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA)
RFC3491 PS Mar 2003 Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN)
RFC3492 PS Mar 2003 Punycode:A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for
Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
