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Title : CHARPREP û Character Equivalency Preparations for IDN
Author(s) : E. Chung
Filename : draft-chung-idnop-charprep-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2003-4-1
Charprep intends to take up where Nameprep [NAMEPREP] left off to
provide additional preventive measures to bridge the users conceptual
perception of a multilingual domain name with the domain matching
process. The critical development from Nameprep is that common user
perception is taken into account. That is, Charprep strives to take
the 'case-insensitivity' concept of user-friendliness to another
level for IDNs because of the inherent complexity and potential
confusion that could arise from the use of multilingual characters in
domain names.
Charprep is designed to be a framework for Zone Administrators (e.g.
domain registries) to employ relevant equivalency tables to compute
and generate variants from the original string to variants that could
possibly create confusion with users. The actual management of
Reserved Variants (RV), Zone Variants (ZV) with the original string
(Primary Domain) will be discussed in Zoneprep [ZONEPREP].
Furthermore, Charprep and Zoneprep are designed to be a recommended
feature to be offered to users by a Zone Administrator (e.g. Domain
Registries) in the management of Internationalized domain names
(IDN). A key concept is that these are done without affecting the
IDN protocol specified in [RFC3490], [RFC3491] and [RFC3492].
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