[idn] FYI: IETF wraps up foreign-language domain name effort

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

See Network World Fusion at
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/1212domain.html for the full text.

IETF wraps up foreign-language domain name effort

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan
Network World Fusion, 12/12/01

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Internet's main standards-setting body
is putting the final touches on a set of specifications that will
support foreign-language domain names instead of today's English
language derivatives.

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The IETF's IDN Working Group ... is now ready to send three documents
outlining the technical details of their approach to the full IETF
and the IETF leadership for final approval. A proposed standard
could be released as early as March, IETF participants say.

"Our basic architecture is done. We just have to forward the
documents for final approval," says Marc Blanchet, co-chair of the
working group and an IT consultant with Canadian firm Viagenie.
"We've really been under a great deal of scrutiny and review
[by the IETF leadership], so my guess is that there will be no problems."

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