It is one of the competitors for internationalized domain names. The "ACE"
stands for "ASCII Compatible Encoding".
The encoding which appears likely to gain overall acceptance is called DUDE
and can be found here: http://www.i-d-n.net/draft/draft-ietf-idn-dude-02.txt
There are several ACE encoding demos on the 'Net (Mark Davis has one at
www.macchiato.com, I have one at www.inter-locale.com)
http://www.i-d-n.net is where you can find out about a whole zoo of Unicode
transfer encoding schemes proposed for use in DNS, plus the relevant issues,
of which there turn out to be a number when creating I18n domain names. The
early implementers have mostly ignored these issues and the interplay
between the ultimate standard and existing registrars should be interesting.
Regards,
Addison
Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect / Manager, Globalization Engineering
webMethods, Inc. | The Business Integration Company
432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, California, USA
+1 408.962.5487 (phone) +1 408.210.3569 (mobile)
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-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Tom Gewecke
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:20 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Unicode and Security: Domain Names
I note that companies like Verisign already claim to offer "domain names"
in dozens of languages and scripts. Apparently these are converted by
something called RACE encoding to ASCII for actual use on the internet.
Does anyone know anything about RACE encoding and its properties?
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