@misc{rfc6055, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 6055, howpublished = {RFC 6055}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC6055}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6055}, author = {Stuart Cheshire and Dr. John C. Klensin and Dave Thaler}, title = {{IAB Thoughts on Encodings for Internationalized Domain Names}}, pagetotal = 24, year = 2011, month = feb, abstract = {This document explores issues with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) that result from the use of various encoding schemes such as UTF-8 and the ASCII-Compatible Encoding produced by the Punycode algorithm. It focuses on the importance of agreeing on a single encoding and how complicated the state of affairs ends up being as a result of using different encodings today.}, }