Topics: 2010

JPRS released idnkit-2.0

(15 Jul 2010)

On July 15th, 2010, JPRS released Internationalized Domain Name Toolkit 2.0 (idnkit-2.0).

idnkit implements specifications for Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) which is standardized by IETF, and provides the following features:

IDN encoding conversion tool helpful for administrators of IDN sites and IDN zones
Useful APIs (libraries) for developers who desire to make their application software comply with IDN standards

The idnkit-2.0 released today is compliant with new IDN standards (*1), and is based on idnkit-1.0 (*2) developed and released by JPNIC.

It is considered that IDN's compliance to new IDN standards will progress hereafter. By providing the above features at an early stage, idnkit-2.0 will help site administrators and application developers evaluate and adopt new standards.

The idnkit-2.0 is available at the following page:

IDN Info by JPRS
http://jprs.co.jp/idn/index-e.html

For inquiries on idnkit-2.0, please contact the following e-mail address:

idnkit-info@jprs.co.jp

(*1): Current IDN standards are called IDNA2003 according to the year they were published, i.e., 2003. Since that year, through operational experiences of IDNs with IDNA2003, several issues such as Unicode version dependency and confusion caused by using symbol characters have been identified. To solve these issues, revision of the standards proceeded at IETF. The new standards are called IDNA2008, as their basic specifications were agreed in 2008. Though the RFCs for IDNA2008 are yet to be published as of July 14th, 2010, their specifications have already been established, and there is no problem in implementing these new specifications.
(*2): The idnkit-2.0 is the revised version of idnkit-1.0 which is an IDNA2003-compliant toolkit, developed and released by JPNIC. This revision was made by JPRS to comply with IDNA2008.