Valdis,
VKve> Mark actually *does* have a *very* valid point - on today's internet, if
you
1. The goal is to go beyond today's internet. (But then, that is always the
goal of a new standard.)
2. Although the primary focus of IETF work is to make standards for global
interoperability, there are fine and valid needs for making global conventions
to support local interoperability. Permitting local-part to be unicode is one
of those. (And, no, I do not believe this requires changing the global parsing
rules.)
d/
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