History of Internationalization of Identifiers
- ca. 1995: First discussions about URI I18N (François Yergeau, Larry
Masinter,...)
- Dec. 1996: first proposal for IDNs: draft-duerst-dns-i18n-00.txt
- 1996-1999: Work on Unicode Normalization
Forms (NFC, NFKC,...)
- 1998: XML 1.0 uses IRIs as system identifiers,...
- Early 2003: IDNA becomes IETF Proposed Standard: RFC 3490, 3491, 3492
