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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-lamps-eai-addresses-05.txt> (Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 certificates) to Proposed Standard

2017-01-24 11:25:25


--On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:40 -0500 John R Levine
<johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:

Have you read the spec, or are you just responding to my notes
and/or Patrik's?

I reread the spec, which was a good idea.  It says the domain
names can contain U-labels and NR-LDH ASCII labels, which
seems correct.  That forbids both A-labels and dodgy stuff
that looks like A-labels but isn't.

Thanks.  That is consistent with my impression.   My concern is
that the language and terminology won't make it clear about what
is being specified unless someone is _really_ familiar with IDNA
and the "EAI" specs.   It meshes with Patrik's concern that the
wording of the spec won't be clear to someone who is not _very_
good with English.

My impression is that there is little problem with the intended
underlying spec, but the document text needs some tuning.

     john

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