Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

ned.freed@innosoft.com wrote:

> It seems premature to consider such details until the solution on
> the right hand side of the @ is nailed down.  How can we answer the
> question of whether or not an ACE is to be used until we know for sure
> there is an ACE?

How can we decide whether or not there should be an ACE, or design a
good one, before we've considered whether or not it will be useful in
other contexts facing the same problem?

If we need to cook up some method to get Unicode characters into domain
names, and another method to get them into email address local parts,
and another method to get them into URI paths, it would be nice if we
could arrange for the same method (or at least very similar ones) to
work in all three places.  Maybe it will turn out to be impossible, but
it would be a shame to charge ahead with domain names only to realize
too late that some other solution could have covered all three cases.

AMC