From: Stephen D Crocker <crocker(_at_)tis(_dot_)com>
To: Mr Rhys Weatherley <rhys(_at_)fit(_dot_)qut(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au>
Cc: Jueneman(_at_)gte(_dot_)com, pem-dev(_at_)tis(_dot_)com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 94 14:28:30 +1000."
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Rhys,
I like your proposal! It will be interesting to see if there's any
groundswell of support. As it turns out, I lobbied for an almost
identical scheme inside our group several months ago and couldn't get
anyone else to sign up for it; the strong preference was for unparsed
email names, e.g. EN = crocker(_at_)tis(_dot_)com(_dot_)
I like C=Internet and then a hierarchial ordering after that.
Your hack for handling the top level is interesting. Subject to
coordination with the powers that be in the DNS community to make sure
we understand where DNS names are headed, your scheme looks
reasonable.
I don't see that DNS has much to do with it. The DNS system can
accomodate arbitrary byte values. Perhaps you mean the RFC-822
community as we are talking about email addresses here.
...
Steve
Donald