At 8:44 PM +0100 1/17/07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
(2) In section 1.3:
An "i18mail user" has one or more non-ASCII email addresses. Such a
user may have ASCII addresses too; if the user has more than one
email account and corresponding address, or more than one alias for
the same address, he or she has some method to choose which address
to use on outgoing email. Note that under this definition, it is not
possible to tell from the address that an email sender or recipient
is an i18mail user. There is no such thing as an "i18mail message";
the term applies only to users and their agents and capabilities.
Does the second-to-last sentence refer to an ASCII address, or any
address? The wording implies any address, but if an address is
non-ASCII, surely that is a good sign that the owner of that
address is an i18mail user?
Right. The situation that is being warned against is taking an
ASCII address as a clear sign that the address owner is not an
i18mail user.
I'd like to see the text improved to make this more clear. As a
suggestion, replace:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
the address that an email sender or recipient is an i18mail user.
with:
Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
an ASCII address if an email sender or recipient is an i18mail
user or not.
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