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Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses
- To: "Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, idn working group <idn@ops.ietf.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:33:40 -0800
- Delivery-date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:35:13 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 3:21 AM +0000 1/8/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>It just occurred to me that once people can put Unicode characters into
>domain names, they'll also want to put them before the @-sign in email
>addresses. How is that going to work?
It won't, yet. It is likely that the mail standards will be updated
to allow internationalized left-hand sides.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium