Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[ned.freed@innosoft.com]

> At 12:32 AM +0000 1/9/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> >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?

> Host names come first. They span all of the protocol elements you are
> concerned with.

Exactly. There is little point in considering local parts now unless they
additionally constrain the problem. (AFAIK they do not.) And even if they did,
the requirements for host names are already so onerous that adding additional
ones imposed by other identifier spaces seems like a really bad idea. We need
closure, not further muddying of the waters.

> As for whether ACE would be a good solution for email local parts if
> they are chosen for host names, all I can say is: of course they
> would. Any presentation layer change that works for the host part of
> an email address will work for the local part.

Yes, but there are some other facets to the local part problem. However, now
is not the time...

					Ned