[80965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Underscores in host names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Thu May 19 18:59:23 2005
In-Reply-To: <428D0ABE.4060305@ehsco.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:59:03 -0400
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 17:53 -0400 5/19/05, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>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.
"Optimal" is so subjective. ;)
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