Re: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt

["Mark Davis" <[e-mail]>]

Would there be any way to get the policy on the format of internet drafts to
be amended to allow UTF-8? It is pretty painful trying to read documents
when the actual characters cannot be used.

Mark
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
>
>
> Title : Internationalized Domain Names Registration and
>                           Administration Guideline for Chinese, Japanese
and
>                           Korean
> Author(s) : J. Seng, J. Klensin et al.
> Filename : draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt
> Pages : 20
> Date : 2002-10-21
>
> Achieving internationalized access to domain names raises many complex
> issues.  These include not only associated with basic protocol design
> (i.e., how the names are represented on the network, compared, and
> converted to appropriate forms) but also issues and options for
> deployment, transition, registration and administration.
>
> The IETF IDN working group focused on the development of a standards
> track specification for access to domain names in a broader range of
> scripts than the original ASCII.  It became clear during its efforts
> that there was great potential for confusion, and difficulties in
> deployment and transition, due to characters with similar appearances
> or interpretations and that those issues could best be addressed
> administratively, rather than through restrictions embedded in the
> protocols.
>
> This document provides guidelines for zone administrators (including
> but not limited to registry operators and registrars), and information
> for all domain names holders, on the administration of those domain
> names which contain characters drawn from Chinese, Japanese and Korean
> scripts (CJK).  Other language groups are encouraged to develop their
> own guidelines as needed, based on these guideline if that is helpful.
>
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