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RFC 5895
Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008,September 2010
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Authors:
- P. Resnick
P. Hoffman - Stream:
- INDEPENDENT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5895
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Abstract
In the original version of the Internationalized Domain Names inApplications (IDNA) protocol, any Unicode code points taken from userinput were mapped into a set of Unicode code points that "madesense", and then encoded and passed to the domain name system (DNS).The IDNA2008 protocol (described in RFCs 5890, 5891, 5892, and 5893)presumes that the input to the protocol comes from a set of"permitted" code points, which it then encodes and passes to the DNS,but does not specify what to do with the result of user input. Thisdocument describes the actions that can be taken by an implementationbetween receiving user input and passing permitted code points to thenew IDNA protocol. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.