Not changing the prefix

[Erik van der Poel]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs at shinkuro.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:18:01AM -0800, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>> Similarly, new IDNA2008 clients can interoperate with old xn-- labels.
>
> _If_ we were going to change the prefix, then we would have to work
> out all manner of things to do, like for instance how IDNA2008 and
> IDNA2003 would work together, if they would.

Yes, and that is exactly what I think about, all the time. But I would
use the word "add" instead of "change".

> I'm pretty sure that we
> wouldn't want a flag day.

I don't want a flag day either, and I don't think we need one.

> But none of that matters, because changing
> the prefix is absolutely, for sure, something we promised we'd not do.

There are people, apparently, who do not appreciate our focus on the
charter. Let's do some real engineering, instead of quibbling about WG
procedure.

> So I think discussing how to do it is not that useful.  (I apologise,
> again, to everyone for having muttered "prefix" upthread.)

Oh, you do not need to apologize for that. Several people, including
me, mentioned the word "prefix" a long time before you showed up. :-)

Erik