Would there be any way to get the policy on the format of internet drafts to be amended to allow UTF-8? It is pretty painful trying to read documents when the actual characters cannot be used.
Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <IETF-Announce:> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 04:39 Subject: [idn] I-D ACTION:draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. > > > Title : Internationalized Domain Names Registration and > Administration Guideline for Chinese, Japanese and > Korean > Author(s) : J. Seng, J. Klensin et al. > Filename : draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt > Pages : 20 > Date : 2002-10-21 > > Achieving internationalized access to domain names raises many complex > issues. These include not only associated with basic protocol design > (i.e., how the names are represented on the network, compared, and > converted to appropriate forms) but also issues and options for > deployment, transition, registration and administration. > > The IETF IDN working group focused on the development of a standards > track specification for access to domain names in a broader range of > scripts than the original ASCII. It became clear during its efforts > that there was great potential for confusion, and difficulties in > deployment and transition, due to characters with similar appearances > or interpretations and that those issues could best be addressed > administratively, rather than through restrictions embedded in the > protocols. > > This document provides guidelines for zone administrators (including > but not limited to registry operators and registrars), and information > for all domain names holders, on the administration of those domain > names which contain characters drawn from Chinese, Japanese and Korean > scripts (CJK). Other language groups are encouraged to develop their > own guidelines as needed, based on these guideline if that is helpful. > > Comments on this document can be sent to the authors at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A URL for this Internet-Draft is: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt > > To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to > ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username > "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, > type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt". > > A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in > http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt > > > Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. > > Send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-jseng-idn-admin-01.txt". > > NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. > > > Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader > implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the > Internet-Draft. >
