- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:37:49 -0700
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FYI -----Original Message----- From: The IESG [mailto:iesg-secretary@ietf.org] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:51 AM Cc: RFC Editor; Internet Architecture Board; idn@ops.ietf.org Subject: Protocol Action: Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards: o Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) <draft-ietf-idn-idna-14.txt> as a Proposed Standard. o Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names <draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-11.txt> o Punycode: An encoding of Unocode for use with IDNA <draft-ietf-idn-punycode-03.txt> These documents are the product of the Internationalized Domain Name Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Erik Nordmark and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary This set documents provide the pieces of the IDNA architecture. They consist of the IDNA document itself, a stringprep profile for domain name labels (nameprep), and an encoding of Unicode strings into letter-digit-hyphen ASCII strings (punycode). These documents provide a mechanism to introduce Internationalized Domain Names without requiring any changes in the DNS itself; the IDN labels which contain non-ASCII characters are represented in the DNS using the ASCII compatible encoding (ACE) called Punycode. This representation can also be used when domain names are carried in IDN-unaware application protocols. Applications use the convertion routines specified in the IDNA document for coverting in both directions between the Unicode version of IDNs and the ACE versions of the IDNs. Working Group Summary The working group resolved some major comments in response to the IETF last call (plus minor and editorial comments). The major comments where - change from using Unicode 3.1 to 3.2 - added restrictions for bidirectional characters - making the applicability of IDNA more clear by adding an applicability section to the IDNA document. There was WG rough concensus to advance these document. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Erik Nordmark.
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