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Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

2002-04-25 12:10:03


Keith Moore wrote:

a. encode domain names in IDNA
b. encode local-parts in an encoding that is to be defined, but which
   hopefully is very similar, perhaps identical, to IDNA

The problem here is that nameprep is stricter than mailbox naming has
historically allowed for. Specifically, the use of mandatory lowercase
characters in nameprep will prohibit mixed-case local-parts.

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