Posted on January 21, 2009, 5:55 am, by dmess0r, under
Blogs.
Back in December of 1996, a man by the name of Martin Dürst at the University of Zürich came up with the idea that adding internationalized characters to domain names would be a good idea. Much debate was had and now almost every Top Level Domain (TLD) available supports internationalized characters. There are a few exceptions if I recall, […]
Posted on December 18, 2008, 7:39 am, by IDN News, under
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Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI’s) are a new take on the old URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which through RFC 3986 restricted domain names to a subset of ASCII characters – mainly lower and upper case letters, numbers, and some punctuation. IRI’s were forecasted many years ago by Martin Dürst and Michel Suignard, and formalized in RFC […]
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IDN spoofing,
IRI,
Nameprep,
Punycode,
RFC 3986,
RFC 3987,
Stringprep,
Unicode domains,
Unicode spoofing,
URI,
UTF-8,
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