At 16:00 -0400 03-09-25, Keith Moore wrote:
> The conclusion of what I have written above is that there
will maybe be a need to extend the existing e-mail
standards, so that the e-mail address of especially From
and Sender fields can be specified in a dual format, with
both the national and the international (ASCII) name
specified at the same time.
not clear. one sure way to cause problems is to provide two different
ways to specify the same thing, when those two things have any
possibility of diverging.
If the mail standards were developed anew with no need
for backwards compatibility, one might say that an
e-mail address should look like this:
<N:Göran(_at_)Müller(_dot_)de,I:Goran(_at_)Muller(_dot_)de>.
Only one of the two subfields N and I would then be
mandatory, and both should always reach the same
recipient.
Now, I am fully aware that something like I describe
above is not possible for backwards compatibility
reasons.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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