Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-crocker-idn-idna-00.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:42:03 -0400

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	Title		: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
	Author(s)	: D. Crocker
	Filename	: draft-crocker-idn-idna-00.txt
	Pages		: 
	Date		: 25-Jun-02
	
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) use Unicode for
domain name, rather than using a subset of ASCII.  This
increased name space, as well the requirement to
maintain compatibility with the existing domain name
service means that IDNs must be encoded in a form that
can be supported without changes to any portion of the
DNS that does not participate in the upgrade to IDN.
This specification defines a mechanism called IDNA for
handling them in a standard fashion and specifies an
IDNA profile for domain names used as host references.
IDNA allows non-ASCII characters to be represented using
the same octets used in so-called host names today. This
representation allows IDNs to be introduced with minimal
changes to the existing DNS infrastructure. IDNA is only
meant for processing domain names, not free text.

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