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RFC 6055
IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names,February 2011
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6055
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Abstract
This document explores issues with Internationalized Domain Names(IDNs) that result from the use of various encoding schemes such asUTF-8 and the ASCII-Compatible Encoding produced by the Punycodealgorithm. It focuses on the importance of agreeing on a singleencoding and how complicated the state of affairs ends up being as aresult of using different encodings today.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.