With all due respect, you have not spent much time in the IETF. It is a long-standing practice to inject a bit of humor into the naming of some of our work items. A quick scan of the IETF Working Group names at <http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html> should give you an idea about this. Punycode seems fine. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium