Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 3:21 AM +0000 1/8/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>It just occurred to me that once people can put Unicode characters into
>domain names, they'll also want to put them before the @-sign in email
>addresses.  How is that going to work?

It won't, yet. It is likely that the mail standards will be updated 
to allow internationalized left-hand sides.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium