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	Title		: Suggested Practices for Registration of
                          Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
	Author(s)	: J. Klensin
	Filename	: draft-klensin-reg-guidelines-05.txt
	Pages		: 25
	Date		: 2004-11-17

Registration of names in the DNS has traditionally involved
   restrictions beyond those very few required by the DNS itself, both
   to match requirements imposed by applications (the 'hostname' rules)
   and avoid confusion among similar-looking names.  With the
   introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs), the standards
   make a much larger number of characters available for inclusion in
   domain names as they appear to the user.  Concerns similar to those
   caused the original adoption of the hostname rules have led several
   groups to explore models for appropriate restrictions by registries
   on the IDNs that can be registered and whether some combinations of
   names should be restricted even if the characters in them are valid.
   This document explores those issues, including how methods developed
   for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can be adapted to other languages
   and scripts, and makes suggestions for mechanisms registries might
   use to define and implement such rules.

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