CHARPREP - Character Equivalency Preparations for IDN
draft-chung-idnop-charprep-00
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| Author | Edmon Chung | ||
| Last updated | 2003-04-01 | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Charprep intends to take up where Nameprep [NAMEPREP] left off to provide additional preventive measures to bridge the users conceptual perception of a multilingual domain name with the domain matching process. The critical development from Nameprep is that common user perception is taken into account. That is, Charprep strives to take the 'case-insensitivity' concept of user-friendliness to another level for IDNs because of the inherent complexity and potential confusion that could arise from the use of multilingual characters in domain names. Charprep is designed to be a framework for Zone Administrators (e.g. domain registries) to employ relevant equivalency tables to compute and generate variants from the original string to variants that could possibly create confusion with users. The actual management of Reserved Variants (RV), Zone Variants (ZV) with the original string (Primary Domain) will be discussed in Zoneprep [ZONEPREP]. Furthermore, Charprep and Zoneprep are designed to be a recommended feature to be offered to users by a Zone Administrator (e.g. Domain Registries) in the management of Internationalized domain names (IDN). A key concept is that these are done without affecting the IDN protocol specified in [RFC3490], [RFC3491] and [RFC3492].
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