Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[William Morris <me@williammorris.com>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, 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?
> 
> I'm not sure it makes sense to try to allow Unicode characters in
> domain names without simultaneously thinking about how to allow them
> in the other parts of email addresses and URIs.  Are there other
> name/address-like things that need to be considered as well?

Lets see... unix shell accounts, pop accounts, ftp accounts, anonymous ftp
password. contact management, the list covers almost everything.
Perhaps it would be better to consider what wouldnt be affected.

I dont see how breaking things can be avoided... does the username get
*ACE encoded as well?

-Bill