> Le 26 juin 2025 à 11:05, Gihan Dias <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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).
I was co-chair of the wg at that time. The problem was that there was a lot of hype to reserve new idn domains and make a lot of money to resell them. Think of any word/trademark/... in all other languages. This was already happening but with other prefixes/ways. So we (community) decided to have a "fair" process, randomized prefix, and "secret" so that everybody will know at the same time. Regards, Marc. > > Gihan > > > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
