[dns-operations] xn--

[Patrik Fältström]

On 26 Jun 2025, at 17:05, Gihan Dias wrote:

> On 26/06/2025 09:43, Joe Abley via dns-operations wrote:
>>
>>> Could anyone point me at a description of how xn-- was chosen for the prefix for idn domains,
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20100427154004/http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/ietf-announce/msg13572.html
>
> Joe,
>
> Thanks.
>
> This clears it up. (though it seems to have been a heavy process for a small decision).

Small decision, but very important. The most important was to agree we DID have to have a prefix, so that we one day can change the prefix if the encoding would change.

Patrik

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