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- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:33:57 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-286: Standardizing on IDNA 2003 in the URL Standard [..track-me] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/286 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: ..track-me Thread start: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-iri/2013Aug/0000.html By: Anne van Kesteren [[ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Aug/0008.html might be of interest to readers of these lists. ]] Here are the contents of that email: [[ Hey hey, So one part that's missing in http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ is domain names. As far as I can tell no browser has moved beyond IDNA 2003 (Opera "regressed" when it adopted Chromium) other than updating their Unicode implementation and nobody is interested in implementing IDNA 2008 (whatever that means, it doesn't exactly define it all the way from code points in an unparsed URL to host bytes). Given that, my plan is to put that in the specification. IDNA 2003, its label separators, the Unicode normalization it uses (but without restrictions to a particular Unicode version), ... Some registrars have moved to IDNA 2008, but this creates security issues as pointed out in http://unicode.org/reports/tr46/ and people are unlikely to register names that do not work. I suspect long term the IETF will have to revisit this, but in the mean time it would be good to have accurate documentation for how we want everything around URLs to work. If there's anything I'm missing here, I'd love to hear about it. If you want more background reading, I wrote this after doing some research last year: http://annevankesteren.nl/2012/11/idna-hell Kind regards, ]]
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