Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2008-02-07

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     James Seng  <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
     Marc Blanchet  <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.ca>

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Chris Newman  <chris.newman@sun.com>
     Lisa Dusseault  <lisa@osafoundation.org>

 Applications Area Advisor:
     Lisa Dusseault  <lisa@osafoundation.org>

 Technical Advisor(s):
     Harald Alvestrand  <harald@alvestrand.no>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:idn@ops.ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      idn-request@ops.ietf.org
     Archive:           ftp://ops.ietf.org/pub/lists/idn*

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.

 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 2000       Req document wg last call 

   Sep 2000       First draft of comparaison document 

   Dec 2000       Final discussion of comparaison document 

   Dec 2000       Protocol RFC first draft 

   Jan 2001       Comparaison document wg last call 

   Mar 2001       Protocol RFC second draft 

   Mar 2001       Transition RFC first draft 

   Jun 2001       Protocol RFC wg last call 

   Jun 2001       Transition RFC second draft 

   Sep 2001       Transition RFC wg last call 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC3490 PS   Mar 2003    Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) 

RFC3491 PS   Mar 2003    Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized 
                       Domain Names (IDN) 

RFC3492 PS   Mar 2003    Punycode:A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for 
                       Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)