{
  "draft": "draft-iab-idn-encoding-04",
  "doc_id": "RFC6055",
  "title": "IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names",
  "authors": [
    "D. Thaler",
    "J. Klensin",
    "S. Cheshire"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "24",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "IAB",
  "abstract": "This document explores issues with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that result from the use of various encoding schemes such as UTF-8 and the ASCII-Compatible Encoding produced by the Punycode algorithm.  It focuses on the importance of agreeing on a single encoding and how complicated the state of affairs ends up being as a result of using different encodings today.",
  "pub_date": "February 2011",
  "keywords": [
    "Unicode",
    "UTF-8"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [
    "RFC2130"
  ],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC6055",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc6055"
}