At 08:00 -0700 03-09-26, Dave Crocker wrote:
But, again, this has nothing to do with MIME.
I did not especially say that this was a MIME issue,
although it is of course related to MIME, since MIME is the
standard for non-ASCII in e-mail headers.
What I did ask is if it is probable that people in the
future are going to want dual e-mail adresses, not only a
display version and an ACE version but two separate
addresses, like "Göran(_at_)Müller(_dot_)de" for national use and
"Goran(_at_)Muller(_dot_)de" for international use.
And if people are going to want this, would it help them if
the standards supported this, for example by allowing the
"From" and "Sender" headers to specify both the national
and the international name, so that the recipient could
choose which of these names to use, dependent on whether
the recipient can handle national names or not.
This may be an issue which IETF has already discussed and
made a decision about, I have not been able to get funding
to participate in much IETF work in the last years, so I
may have missed work already done.
At 09:32 -0700 03-09-26, ned+ietf-822(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
If so it will be completely nonstandard, since IDN is clearly
scoped to apply to domain names only.
When IDN starts to be used, people will want to use
national characters also in the local part of e-mail
addresses, and ask for standards to support it.
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