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Re: Underscores in host names

  • From: Edward Lewis
  • Date: Thu May 19 19:00:00 2005

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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