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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.

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