{"draft":"draft-resman-idna2008-mappings-01","doc_id":"RFC5895","title":"Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008","authors":["P. Resnick","P. Hoffman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"7","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"INDEPENDENT","abstract":"In the original version of the Internationalized Domain Names in\r\nApplications (IDNA) protocol, any Unicode code points taken from user\r\ninput were mapped into a set of Unicode code points that \"made\r\nsense\", and then encoded and passed to the domain name system (DNS).\r\nThe IDNA2008 protocol (described in RFCs 5890, 5891, 5892, and 5893)\r\npresumes that the input to the protocol comes from a set of\r\n\"permitted\" code points, which it then encodes and passes to the DNS,\r\nbut does not specify what to do with the result of user input.  This\r\ndocument describes the actions that can be taken by an implementation\r\nbetween receiving user input and passing permitted code points to the\r\nnew IDNA protocol.  This document is not an Internet Standards Track \r\nspecification; it is published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"September 2010","keywords":["user input","character mapping","locale","user interface","Unicode"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5895","errata_url":null}