On 3/23/2016 12:02 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
As a work, this seems very useful, as it pulls together (or will pull
together) a lot of useful information about e-mail addresses in both
specification and practice.
Great!
But the terminology needs to be clarified
at some point: a single document (or sentence) is either normative or
not. If something is a "best common practice", it is not normative, the
rules are set somewhere else.
IETF Process issue:
Well, RFC 5646/BCP 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages" is a BCP.
However, it is referred to normatively by a slew of Standards Track
documents. I would propose that this document be seen in a similar
light. One would not expect the Mail Standards to adopt these regular
expressions, but other standards that use regular expressions for e-mail
would probably do best to refer to this document. Examples include
CBOR/CDDL (draft-greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl), and DNS/NAPTR records
(RFCs 3401-3404), when the subject matter is e-mail stuff.
When I raised the classification issue during initial development, one
advisor said something to the effect of oh, so it's like a Real BCP,
where it actually prescribes actual Best Current Practices, unlike what
most of the BCPs these days are. (Whatever that means, just the messenger!)
Sean
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