Re: [idn] internationalized email addresses

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 12:32 AM +0000 1/9/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>How can we decide whether or not there should be an ACE, or design a
>good one, before we've considered whether or not it will be useful in
>other contexts facing the same problem?

Host names come first. They span all of the protocol elements you are 
concerned with.

As for whether ACE would be a good solution for email local parts if 
they are chosen for host names, all I can say is: of course they 
would. Any presentation layer change that works for the host part of 
an email address will work for the local part.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium