Re: EPP Extensions for IDN

Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.provreg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:31:27PM +0100, Dan Maharry wrote:
> 
> - the Unicode version of the domain 
> - the punycode ascii version of the domain
> - the language code for the domain name 

It seems to me that the "Punycode ASCII version" (what John Klensin is
now calling an A-label, I think) is just what you put as the domain
name in the command.  But I agree that you probably actually want the
U-label as well.

Most important, at least under any policy regime where you intend to
map characters into language (as the ICANN policy requires) is that
language code bit.  That's even more important when variants come into
play.

The Internationalization discussion during the technical plenary at
the Prague meeting was awfully interesting on this topic.  Anyone
working on documents proposing to offer a way to implement IDNA for
EPP ought to keep a pretty close eye on the Internationalization
dicussions, because it'd be awful to settle on an approach that made
moving to IDNA200x harder.  (In that context, John's
draft-klensin-idnabis-issues is obviously something to watch.)

A

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