GoDaddy might be able to apply some resource to help here. Don, Do you want me to engage with our primary IETF rep on this? He shepherds our RFC work and should be able to help guide this. --Rich Richard Merdinger VP, Domains rmerdinger@godaddy.com<mailto:rmerdinger@godaddy.com> From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@mozilla.com> Date: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 8:14 AM To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Cc: "ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Mixing between RTL and LTR scripts I have already published some RFCs containing non-ASCII characters (but not yet RTL text). See for instance RFC 8265. Peter Sent from mobile, might be terse On May 11, 2018, at 7:05 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>> wrote: We'd be an excellent pilot case. -- Please excuse my clumbsy thums ________________________________ On May 11, 2018 05:17:31 Andre Schappo <A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk<mailto:A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk>> wrote: My experience of RFCs is that they are ASCII and that makes it rather difficult to give Arabic examples. The last thing I encountered is https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc7997.pdf which proposes usage of Unicode UTF-8 instead of ASCII What is the current state of play for using Unicode UTF8 in RFCs? André Schappo On 10 May 2018, at 19:30, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>> wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 06:19:42PM +0000, Don Hollander wrote: Andrew, is this possible? If so, how do we go about getting such underway? Write an Internet-Draft and upload it to the Internet-Drafts repository and get some review. My bet is that this will either have to be AD sponsored or Independent Submission, but maybe it can go through one of the area working groups. The first trick is to get the I-D written, though. There are a lot of tools for this, none of them very friendly. Many people like https://github.com/miekg/pandoc2rfc/ A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>