* Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>:
> Section 3.1 would be better worded as:
> 
> 3.1.  Email address variants
> 
> Some email service providers and email software perform automatic mappings of 
> the LHS of email addresses based on special characters.  This makes finding 
> OPENPGPKEY record for a particular name that might be mapped impossible 
> because there is no complete set of mappings and, worse, some common mappings 
> conflict with each other.
> 
> It might be tempting for software that implements DNS lookup for the 
> OPENPGPKEY RRtype to try to perform similar mappings while trying to find a 
> particular OPENPGPKEY record. This SHOULD NOT be done because some mapping 
> attempts might retrieve the key for the wrong user, depending on the mapping 
> rules of the service provider or software platform.

+1

p@rick

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