References

ICANN Board Resolutions on IDN variants

• Mar 18, 2011. Approval of Membership of IDN Variants Working Group: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-18mar11-en.htm#1.5
• Dec 10, 2010. Conclusion of Working Group on Equivalent Strings Support: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-10dec10-en.htm#7
• Sep 25, 2010. Variant Management: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm#2.5
• Mar 12, 2010. IDN variants: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm#10
• Mar 12, 2010. Formation of the Working Group on Equivalent Strings Support: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-12mar10-en.htm#12

ICANN Related Past Work

• IDN implementation team final report: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-implementation-working-team-report-final-03dec09-en.pdf
• IDN variant and new gTLD progam: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/idn-variants-15feb10-en.pdf (Note, this version is not what's in the final gTLD guidebook)
• IDN fast track implementation plan: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-16nov09-en.pdf

IANA IDN practices

• IDN tables repository (IDN tables used in registries): http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/

Policy Development

• Joint ccNSO-GNSO Working Group on IDNs (See Chater: http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/jig-charter-16jul09.pdf).

IETF Resources

• IETF DNSEXT mailing list archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsext/current/threads.html
• Problem Statement: DNS resolution of Aliased Domain Names (Expired April 2011): http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yao-dnsext-identical-resolution-02
• RFC 3536:  Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3536.txt
• RFC 3743: JET Guidelines for IDN Registration and Administration for CJK (Informational, Apr 2004) : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3743.txt
• RFC 4290: Suggested Practice for Registration of IDN: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4290 (2005)
• RFC 4690: Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (aka IAB IDN next steps): http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4690.txt
• RFC 5564: Linguistic Guidelines for the Use of the Arabic Language in Internet Domains (Informational Feb 2010): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc556
• RFC 5890: Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5890

Unicode Related Resources:

• Unicode Consortium, http://unicode.org/
• Unicode Version 6.0 http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/
• Unicode specifications: http://www.unicode.org/faq/specifications.html
• Unicode Security Considerations: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/
• Unicode Charts: http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Others:

• List of language regulators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators