At 19.49 +0000 01-01-05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Am I right in thinking that UTF-8 style IDNs are used then Boris and
>Ivan can't communicate unless Ivan can persuade his ISP to upgrade his
>sendmail, but an ACE would only need Ivan to upgrade his mail client ?
Correct.
>In fact if Boris starts the exchange and although it would look odd,
>wouldn't Ivan be able to just hit `Reply' on his existing email client ?
Even this is true. It is even the case that Boris can give his
ACE-version of his real email address to people in a form as "if you
can not enter cyrillic characters in my email address, please enter
this instead".
I.e. I could register one day maybe:
f�ltstr�m.com
...but could also on my buissness card have (if the ACE ends up being RACE):
bq--abtoi3duon2hf5tn .com
Yes, it looks ugly, it explicitly is leakage which we all hate, but,
it makes it possible for people with non-IDN software to access the
domain. Of course, I can in parallell have a domain which is
"faltstrom.com" or whatever, but I might think that my customers if I
help them that way never update their software. I.e. I _WANT_ people
to be able to use "f�ltstr�m.com" probably, so I would only help them
to some degree, and that might be to give them the ace encoding in
paralel with the real name.
paf
