Latin 'o' and Greek 'o' are almost indistinguishable ,
(and I can list up hundreds of such examples.)
but their ACE labels often look very different.
For security reasons, IDN-capable email programs
may display an IDN email address
both in its original scripts and in its ACEed form
to encourage instant verification like this:
"FullName <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
It's more secure but looks ugly. shorter ACE labels may help.
ACE labels are better than appended hexadecimal dump of utf8 lables
for this purpose.
Soobok Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam M. Costello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Reality Check
> Russ Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ...people will use both IDN and non-IDN address until every they need
> > to communicate can...
>
> Are you arguing that ACE is unnecessary? If so, please explain how
> email is going to work. What is supposed to happen when IDN-capable
> person A sends a message to IDN-capable person B, who then forwards the
> message to IDN-incapable person C, who would like to reply to A? What
> is supposed to happen when IDN-capable people send email to mailing
> lists? Are they supposed to use their non-IDN address if there are any
> IDN-incapable subscribers? How will they know?
>
> > I have read a lot of comments on this list that state that ACE is just
> > an intermediate step to help us get to a UTF-8 solution.
>
> I don't agree with those comments. While I can see ACE becoming less
> common over time, I wouldn't expect it to completely die out in the
> forseeable future.
>
> AMC
>
