IDN WG
The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) Working Group was formed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2000 to develop standards in order to internationalize or use multilingual domain names. They were tasked to create a specific set of requirements and formulate IETF standards-track protocols to allow the use of non ASCII scripts or characters as domain names.[1] The IDN Working Group was co-chaired by James Seng and Marc Blanchet.[2]
Background[edit | edit source]
The internationalization of domain names was first introduced by Martin Duerst from the University of Zürich through an Internet Draft submitted to the IETF on December 10, 1996.[3] [4]