FYI regarding IDN

[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

IETF Pushes Multi-languages Domain Names
AsiaPort Daily News: 12 March 2003
[What follows is the full text of the news story.]

BEIJING, Mar 12, 2003 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- Beijing Morning reported 
that on March 8, 2003 (Beijing Time) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) 
pushed multi-languages domain names standards including RFC3490, RFC3491, 
RFC3492 after discussed and approved by experts.

The three standards solve problems of multi-languages code range and 
pre-handling measures, conversion of multi-languages codes and 
multi-languages domain names and applications supporting multi-languages 
domain names.

News from CNNIC shows that it has developed applications compatible with 
international standards, and the applications can be soon downloaded by 
users free of charge. The applications support multi-languages domain names 
including Chinese domain names. With the applications, Chinese users can 
surf the Web easily.

According to the Regulations on China Internet Domain Name System issued by 
the Ministry of Information Industry, Chinese top-level domain names 
include .CN, .(China in Chinese), and .(Company in Chinese).

From China News, Page 1, Tuesday, March 11, 2003 info@SinoCast.Com

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