Dear Unicoders, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-08.txt about the internationalization of URIs (called IRIs) has recently been updated and published.
This has been around for a long time, but we plan to move ahead with it in the very near future. Please have a look at the document, and send me any comments that you have soon. Many thanks in advance, Martin. A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) Author(s) : L. Masinter, M. Duerst Filename : draft-masinter-url-i18n-08.txt Pages : 12 Date : 28-Nov-01 This document defines a new protocol element, an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). An IRI is a sequence of characters from the Universal Character Set [10646]. A mapping from IRIs to URIs [RFC 2396] is defined, which means that IRIs can be used instead of URIs where appropriate to identify resources A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-08.txt