RE: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@qsm.co.il>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> William Morris
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:56 AM
> To: Adam M. Costello
> Cc: idn working group
> Subject: Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses
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> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Adam M. Costello wrote:
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> > 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?
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> Lets see... unix shell accounts, pop accounts, ftp accounts, anonymous ftp
> password. contact management, the list covers almost everything.

No - it should be everything. It should be possible to use computers and the
Internet without any English.

Jony

> Perhaps it would be better to consider what wouldnt be affected.
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> I dont see how breaking things can be avoided... does the username get
> *ACE encoded as well?
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> -Bill
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