On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 5:13 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <4878884.yiV4iTtLKX@kitterma-e6430> you write:
> >> In authentication service identifiers in EAI-formatted messages, a
> U-label
> >> and its equivalent A-label are considered to be the same.
> >
> >As an implementer (who's tried really hard to avoid spending cycles on
> EAI -
> >sorry), does this translate into "be prepared for UTF-8 in any A-R
> element
> >that may contain an email address or a domain"?
>
> That's partly it.  IDN domain labels can be in two different forms, a
> UTF-8 U-label or an xn--punycode A-label.  It would be a good idea to
> treat them as equivalent.  There are translation libraries, and it's
> easy to recognize U-labels by checking for the 0x80 bit so this is not
> a lot of code.  Having been writing MTA patches to handle EAI better
> last week, I say this from experience.
>

Does that mean the proposed change is appropriate, or the current text is
sufficient?

-MSK
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