Re: [idn] When will IDN be functional?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:55:00AM +0100,
 Georg Ochsner <georg@ochsner.com> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

> can anybody tell me, when IDNs will finally go live now, with the final
> prefix and everything?

As mentioned, they are live for several months. Here is the list of
proper RFCs:

3490 Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). P.
     Faltstrom, P. Hoffman, A. Costello. March 2003. (Format: TXT=51943
     bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
3491 Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationalized Domain Names
     (IDN). P. Hoffman, M. Blanchet. March 2003. (Format: TXT=10316 bytes)
     (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
3492 Punycode: A Bootstring encoding of Unicode for Internationalized
     Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). A. Costello. March 2003.
     (Format: TXT=67439 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)