UTF-5
- Challenge by Larry Masinter: I18N of URIs may work, but i18n of DNS?
Never!
- First Internet Draft on multilingual domain names: draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt
(December 1996, expired)
- 'Cheat' DNS into supporting i18n:
- Hidden top-level domain to identify encoding (similar to
in-addr.arpa)
- Encoding from UCS codepoints to variable number of DNS
characters
- Encoding later called UTF-5 because it uses 5 bits per code
unit
- Misnomer, because mapping to characters, not to bit patterns
- If we are really going to do i18n of DNS, let's do a clean job
