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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]]. ICANN also established its IDN Working Group on 2001.<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 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 in 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]]. [[ICANN]] also established its own IDN Working Group on 2001.<ref>[http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/14009/seng-idn-overview.pdf History of IDN]</ref>

==Background==

==Background==