[registrars] [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt (fwd)
FYI -rick ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:14:09 -0400 From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org Subject: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Internationalized Domain Name Working Group of the IETF. Title : Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) Author(s) : P. Faltstrom, P. Hoffman, A. Costello Filename : draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt Pages : 0 Date : 2002-10-7 Until now, there has been no standard method for domain names to use characters outside the ASCII repertoire. This document defines internationalized domain names (IDNs) and a mechanism called IDNA for handling them in a standard fashion. IDNs use characters drawn from a large repertoire (Unicode), but IDNA allows the non-ASCII characters to be represented using only the ASCII characters already allowed in so-called host names today. This backward-compatible representation is required in existing protocols like DNS, so that IDNs can be introduced with no changes to the existing infrastructure. IDNA is only meant for processing domain names, not free text. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. <<< multipart/alternative: No recognizable part >>> |