March 22, 2001
Changes afoot at the IETF
Changes afoot at the IETF
The IETF most significant projects involve creating a way for the Internet's domain name system to support languages other than English. The IETF is weighing two technical solutions for this complex problem: either converting foreign language characters into Unicode and then encoding them in ASCII for transmission over the Internet; or creating a directory layer on top of the DNS to perform this translation function.
Posted by rshah at March 22, 2001 12:00 PM