IETF/WG IDN

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Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
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Last Modified: 2002-03-28

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[edit] Organisation

[edit] Chair(s):

  • James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
  • Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>

[edit] Internet Area Director(s)

  • Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
  • Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>

[edit] Internet Area Advisor

  • Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>

[edit] Technical Advisor(s)

  • Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>

[edit] Mailing Lists

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 00	  	Req document wg last call
SEP 00	  	First draft of comparaison document
DEC 00	  	Final discussion of comparaison document
DEC 00	  	Protocol RFC first draft
JAN 01	  	Comparaison document wg last call
MAR 01	  	Protocol RFC second draft
MAR 01	  	Transition RFC first draft
JUN 01	  	Protocol RFC wg last call
JUN 01	  	Transition RFC second draft
SEP 01	  	Transition RFC wg last call

[edit] Internet-Drafts

  • Transitional Reflexive ASE - IDN Transition (IDNX) (39458 bytes)
  • Internationalized Domain Names in URIs (14072 bytes)

[edit] Request For Comments

  • Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) (RFC 3490) (51943 bytes)
  • Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) (RFC 3491) (10316 bytes)
  • Punycode:A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) (RFC 3492) (67439 bytes)
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