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Title : National and Local Characters in DNS TLD Names
Author(s) : J. Klensin
Filename : draft-klensin-idn-tld-02.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 2004-4-28
In the context of work on internationalizing the Domain Name System
(DNS), there have been extensive discussions about 'multilingual' or
'internationalized' top level domain names (TLDs), especially for
countries whose predominant language is not written in a Roman-based
script. This document reviews some of the motivations for such
domains and the constraints that the DNS imposes. It then suggests
an alternative, local translation, that may solve a superset of the
problem while avoiding protocol changes, serious deployment delays,
and other difficulties. The suggestion utilizes a localization
technique to permit any TLD to be accessed using the characters of
any language not merely language- or country-specific 'multilingual'
TLDs in the language(s) and script(s) of that country.
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