{"draft":"draft-iab-idn-encoding-04","doc_id":"RFC6055","title":"IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names","authors":["D. Thaler","J. Klensin","S. Cheshire"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IAB","abstract":"This document explores issues with Internationalized Domain Names\r\n(IDNs) that result from the use of various encoding schemes such as\r\nUTF-8 and the ASCII-Compatible Encoding produced by the Punycode\r\nalgorithm.  It focuses on the importance of agreeing on a single\r\nencoding and how complicated the state of affairs ends up being as a\r\nresult of using different encodings today.","pub_date":"February 2011","keywords":["Unicode","UTF-8",""],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2130"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6055","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6055"}