Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[ned.freed@innosoft.com]

Since this is entirely out of scope for the WG this will be my last posting
on the subject.

> I'm not sure that IDN is the place to discuss it,

It isn't. See the WG charter.

> but
> there are several potentially hairy issues associated with using
> ACE for local-parts.  including:

> ...

> now it's quite possibly the case that all of these can be worked out
> satisfactorily, and it Sure Would Be Nice if the same encoding
> routine that is used for IDNs could also be used for local-parts
> of an email address.

The constaints on local parts are a strict subset of those on parts of
domain names, so I don't see a problem here.

> but it's a bit of a leap to say that whatever
> ACE is chosen for IDNs will Just Work for local-parts.

Given the constraints on ACEs I disagree, but again, even if I'm wrong I think
letting additional requirements from other identifier spaces leak in here is a
really bad idea.

				Ned