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Title : Internationalized Domain Names: Alternatives to IDNA
Author(s) : J. Klensin
Filename : draft-klensin-idna-alternatives-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2008-02-18
The Internet protocol for internationalized domain names (IDNs) is
documented in RFC 3490 and associated documents and commonly known as
IDNA. While that protocol was being developed (and more recently),
there were a number of alternate proposals and suggestions for
different ways to do IDNs. IDNA was favored over those alternatives,
but variations on them seem to keep reappearing with the suggestion
that they are novel ideas. This memo describes some of those
suggested alternatives and summarizes the reasons why they were not
favored over IDNA.
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