Re: [idn] Patent Document on IDN

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 01:06 PM 6/16/00 -0400, J. William Semich wrote:
>A method for providing for multi-lingual names for use on the Internet, 
>related networks, and computers is disclosed, the method comprising the 
>steps of: forming an initial multi-lingual name in a multi-lingual format; 
>mapping the multi-lingual name to a corresponding coded name in a 
>reversible manner, the coded name comprising a restricted subset of the 
>ASCII character set; utilising the corresponding

Might be interesting to evaluate it in light of:

RFC 1342, Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers. K.
      Moore. June 1992. (Format: TXT=15845 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC1522)
      (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

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