It is one of the competitors for internationalized domain names. The "ACE" stands for "ASCII Compatible Encoding".
The encoding which appears likely to gain overall acceptance is called DUDE and can be found here: http://www.i-d-n.net/draft/draft-ietf-idn-dude-02.txt There are several ACE encoding demos on the 'Net (Mark Davis has one at www.macchiato.com, I have one at www.inter-locale.com) http://www.i-d-n.net is where you can find out about a whole zoo of Unicode transfer encoding schemes proposed for use in DNS, plus the relevant issues, of which there turn out to be a number when creating I18n domain names. The early implementers have mostly ignored these issues and the interplay between the ultimate standard and existing registrars should be interesting. Regards, Addison Addison P. Phillips Globalization Architect / Manager, Globalization Engineering webMethods, Inc. | The Business Integration Company 432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, California, USA +1 408.962.5487 (phone) +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------- Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Gewecke Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unicode and Security: Domain Names I note that companies like Verisign already claim to offer "domain names" in dozens of languages and scripts. Apparently these are converted by something called RACE encoding to ASCII for actual use on the internet. Does anyone know anything about RACE encoding and its properties?
