Internationalized Domain Name (idn)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2002-03-28
Current Status: Active Working Group
Chair(s):
James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
Marc Blanchet <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>
Internet Area Director(s):
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>
Internet Area Advisor:
Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>
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 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
Internet-Drafts:
Posted Revised I-D Title <Filename>
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Jul 00 Jun 02 <draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-11.txt>
Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain
Names
Sep 00 Oct 02 <draft-ietf-idn-idna-13.txt>
Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA)
Sep 00 Jul 02 <draft-ietf-idn-dnsii-trace-01.txt>
Transitional Reflexive ASE - IDN Transition (IDNX)
Jan 01 Jul 02 <draft-ietf-idn-uri-02.txt>
Internationalized Domain Names in URIs
Jan 02 May 02 <draft-ietf-idn-punycode-02.txt>
Punycode:An encoding of Unicode for use with IDNA
Request For Comments:
None to date.