not provide people with a way to specify web resources using their own alphabets, an IRI does not make clear how web resources can be accessed with keyboards that are not capable of generating the requisite internationalized characters. This means that IRIs are now handled in a way very similar to many other software which might require the use of a non-keyboard input method when dealing with texts in various languages. See also IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) Semantic Web Punycode XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) References External links W3C Internationalization Activity RFC 3987 : Proposed Standard of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) IANA List of Registered URI Schemes Application layer protocols Emerging technologies Internet protocols Internet Standards URL Web services