[tei-council] Internationalised domains

[Stuart A. Yeates]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Kevin Hawkins
<kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:

<snip great summary>

> But I fear that I have missed the point of Punycode here.

The advantage of punycode over percent encoding is that DNS doesn't
accept % encoding and making it accept percent encoding would require
rewriting portions of network stacks in embedded devices (i.e. every
router on the planet).

cheers
stuart