On 18.3.2015 17:24, Warren Kumari wrote:
> [ Random top post ]
> So, it feels like we are approaching a compromise / consensus on this
> bit (which is good, because this part was the bit we were least in
> agreement on)

Warren and list, I believe that the RDATA format is still underspecified which
seems like a major problem to me: Please see
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dane/current/msg07390.html

Petr Spacek  @  Red Hat

> Let's give this a bit more time to settle, then I'm planning on a very
> short  WGLC, restricted just to this question, and with a "We'll
> assume you are OK with this, unless you say otherwise".
> 
> W
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2015, John Levine wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'd suggest taking out "based on special characters", since the most
>>> common mapping is case folding.  The standard term for the LHS is
>>> local-part, so you might as well use that and reference RFC 5321, sec
>>> 2.3.11 where it's defined.
>>>
>>> Also, the SHOULD NOT would better be MUST NOT, to be consistent with
>>> RFC 5321 which says "the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned
>>> semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the
>>> address."
>>>
>>> (If you have a private agreement with someone and you have knowledge
>>> of their internal mappings, you can do whatever you want, but of
>>> course private agreements are outside the scope of standards.)
>>
>>
>> With this, we've gone a full circle. It feels strange to me to write a
>> MUST NOT, knowing that implementors will need to do this in practise.
>>
>> But I guess I could live with it if the consensus moves this way, but to
>> me that seems only because I know the MUST NOT will be violated.
>>
>>> Having said all that, how useful do people think this will be if it
>>> doesn't allow the local-part fuzz that mail systems provide?  If the
>>> addresses to be looked up are picked mechanically from incoming mail
>>> headers, it'd likely work fine.  If typed in from business cards, it
>>> could be pretty frustrating.
>>
>>
>> Or even typed in on an iphone for which you have an existing contact
>> with a lower case name, and it stupidly Uppercases it anyway when you
>> type.
>>
>> Paul

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