In a message dated 2002-02-08 8:23:22 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Does anyone know anything about RACE encoding and its properties? > > I wrote an article on IDNS in December of 2000 which discusses the > approaches which were being debated at that time, including RACE. RACE > is briefly described in that article. You can find it at: > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/u-domains.html > > I tried to find an updated internet draft on RACE, but looks like > nothing exists after version 4, which has been archived. I'm guessing > that draft names wich include the text BRACE, TRACE, and GRACE are > probably RACE variations however. Check them out at: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ An ACE (ASCII-Compatible Encoding) has been chosen for IDN, and it is neither RACE nor DUDE. Its working name was AMC-ACE-Z, and it has since been renamed Punycode. (No, I don't like the name either.) A search for "punycode" in the internet-drafts directory that Suzanne mentioned will reveal the details you are looking for. Beware that in addition to Punycode, there is another step in the IDN process called "nameprep," which is basically an extended form of normalization to keep compatibility characters, non-spacing marks, directional overrides, and such out of domain names. Converting an arbitrary string through Punycode does not necessarily make it IDN-ready. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California (address will soon change to dewell at adelphia dot net)
