Re: [idn] Reality Check

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 21:18 01/07/14 +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:

>Are you arguing that ACE is unnecessary?  If so, please explain how
>email is going to work.  What is supposed to happen when IDN-capable
>person A sends a message to IDN-capable person B, who then forwards the
>message to IDN-incapable person C, who would like to reply to A?  What
>is supposed to happen when IDN-capable people send email to mailing
>lists?  Are they supposed to use their non-IDN address if there are any
>IDN-incapable subscribers?  How will they know?

Assuming that the sender has some clue about how the address will
show up at the other end, no sender will want ACE to show up.
If mail systems don't get some functionality that will automatically
only use the ACE address if the other systems can display the actual
characters, ACE will get very bad press. So there is no real argument
here to favor ACE over UTF-8.

Regards,   Martin.