At 01:06 AM 1/28/00 -0500, David Herron wrote:
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/27/forget.asci.idg/index.html
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>The DNS needs to be redesigned to use Unicode.
Note that _DNS_ is quite capable of supporting such names; it's the host
naming rules that impose constraints. See RFC 2181, section 11.
See also the recent announcement (24-Jan-2000):
>A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Internet Area.
>The IESG has not made any determination as yet.
>
>The following Description was submitted, and is provided for
>informational purposes only:
>
> Mailing Lists:
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>Description of Working Group:
>
>The goal of the group is to investigate and specify the requirements for
>supporting internationalized domain names.
>
>The scope of the group is to investigate the possible means of doing
>this and what technical impact they will have on the users of such names
>and on other users and administrators of the domain name system.
>
>The group will not address the question of what, if any, body should
>administer or control usage of names that use this functionality.
>
>The Action Item(s) for the Working Group are
>
> 1. An Informational RFC specifying the requirements for encoding
> International characters into DNS names and records. 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.
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Graham Klyne
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