there was also a recent draft (draft-faerber-i18n-email-netnews-names)
on using the IDN algorithms for newsgroup and various other news- and
email-related names.
Tony Hansen
tony(_at_)att(_dot_)com
Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
--On Friday, January 03, 2003 11:38 AM -0800 ned+ietf-822(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com
wrote:
Newsgroup names are an interesting case because they aren't something
email
cares about. While an 8bit newsgroup name in some news-specific header
field may not survive a trip into and out of email, at least it doesn't
trash any of the email-specific pparts of the message.
An argument to have this one thing be in 8bit would still be a very tough
sell, but far far easier than arguing that it is OK to have 8bit fields
that are shared between email and netnews.
Newsgroup names are a very hard problem. Note that the way Usenet works
right now requires these get passed gracefully through e-mail: in
moderated newsgroups posts are e-mailed to the moderator.