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RFC 3490 - Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

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Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) (RFC 3490, ; obsoleted by RFC 5891, RFC 5890)

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RFC 3490: Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

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Until now, there has been no standard method for domain names to use characters outside the ASCII repertoire. This document defines internationalized domain names (IDNs) and a mechanism called Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) for handling them in a standard fashion. IDNs use characters drawn from a large repertoire (Unicode), but IDNA allows the non-ASCII characters to be represented using only the ASCII characters already allowed in so-called host names today. This backward-compatible representation is required in existing protocols like DNS, so that IDNs can be introduced with no changes to the existing infrastructure. IDNA is only meant for processing domain names, not free text. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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