L2/06-339 Source: Mark Davis Date: 2006-10-20 Subject: IDNA ========= The following internet drafts should be discussed at the meeting. A recent IAB report identified issues that have been raised with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) some of which require tuning of the existing protocols and the tables on which they depend. Based on intensive discussion by an informal design team, this document further explains some of the issues that have been encountered and provides explanatory material for some of the proposals that are being made. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-idnabis-issues-00.txt (L2/06-340) The use of right-to-left scripts in internationalized domain names has presented several challenges. This memo discusses one problem resulting from a constraint on the use of combining characters at the end of an RTL domain label, resulting in some words being declared invalid as IDN labels, and proposes a means for ameliorating this problem. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-alvestrand-idna-bidi-00.txt (L2/06-341) This document specifies the codepoints in the Unicode tables that are safe for use in the standards for Internationalized Domain Names, IDN. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-00.txt (L2/06-342)