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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.<ref>[http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/111_idns.html Internationalizing the Domain Names]</ref> The IDN Working Group was co-chaired by [[James Seng]] and [[Marc Blanchet]].<ref>[http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/14009/seng-idn-overview.pdf History of IDN]</ref>
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.<ref>[http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/111_idns.html Internationalizing the Domain Names]</ref> The IDN Working Group was co-chaired by [[James Seng]] and [[Marc Blanchet]].<ref>[http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/14009/seng-idn-overview.pdf History of IDN]</ref>
==Background==
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.<ref>[http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00 Internationalization of Domain Names]</ref> <ref>[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1996Dec/0038.html URLs and Internationalization]</ref>
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