File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Updates:

RFC 2130

Authors:

D. Thaler
J. Klensin
S. Cheshire

Stream:

IAB

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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 as UTF-8 and the ASCII-Compatible Encoding produced by the Punycode algorithm. It focuses on the importance of agreeing on a single encoding and how complicated the state of affairs ends up being as a result of using different encodings today.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.