[idn] FW: I-D ACTION:draft-masinter-url-i18n-05.txt

["Larry Masinter" <LM@att.com>]

I believe that much of the discussion in this document (about
IURIs) applies to IDNs, including almost all of section 3
(Software requirements). Just substitute "host/domain name" for
"URI" as you read through it.



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	Title		: Internationalized Uniform Resource Identifiers (IURI)
	Author(s)	: L. Masinter, M. Duerst
	Filename	: draft-masinter-url-i18n-05.txt
	Pages		: 12
	Date		: 13-Mar-00

A URI [RFC 2396] is a protocol element, defined as a sequence of
characters chosen from a limited subset of the repertoire of ASCII
characters. URIs are used both for transmission in network protocols
and also as a representation in spoken and written human
communication.

This document defines a new protocol element, the IURI
(Internationalized URI), defined as a sequence of characters from the
repertoire of the UCS (Universal Character Set). It defines a mapping
of IURIs to URIs and gives guidelines for the use and deployment of
IURIs in various elements of software that deal with URIs.

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