- Allowing Web addresses to contain a wide variety of characters
- Well-defined conversion from IRIs to URIs (using UTF-8 and
%HH-encoding)
- Allow to use Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) in Web addresses
- Current specification: draft-duerst-iri-10.txt,
see editing page
for updates
- IETF process, W3C contributions
- Specification status: Very close to being approved by the IESG
- Related: Character Model: Resource Identifiers
Example 1, IDN: http://納豆.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp/
(fallback)
Example 2, filename: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/JP納豆/引き割り納豆.html
(fallback)
