{
  "draft": "draft-klensin-reg-guidelines-08",
  "doc_id": "RFC4290",
  "title": "Suggested Practices for Registration of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)",
  "authors": [
    "J. Klensin"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "28",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "INDEPENDENT",
  "abstract": "This document explores the issues in the registration of internationalized domain names (IDNs).  The basic IDN definition allows a very large number of possible characters in domain names, and this richness may lead to serious user confusion about similar-looking names.  To avoid this confusion, the IDN registration process must impose rules that disallow some otherwise-valid name combinations.  This document suggests a set of mechanisms that registries might use to define and implement such rules for a broad range of languages, including adaptation of methods developed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean domain names.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.",
  "pub_date": "December 2005",
  "keywords": [
    "chinese domain names",
    "japanese domain names",
    "korean domain names"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC4290",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc4290"
}