[80963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu May 19 17:53:28 2005
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:53:02 -0400
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06200705beb267f93732@[192.168.1.101]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Edward Lewis wrote:
> It's true that the xn-- convention isn't the best way to encode
> IDN's, but it has proven to be the optimal one in design (at least).
It's the necessary minimum for compatibilty purposes, but not anywhere
near the optimal design.
Moreover, those have nothing to do with each other.
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
