----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [idn] Document Status?
> At 3:34 PM -0500 9/3/02, Eric A. Hall wrote: > >Specifically, end-nodes typically extract data from MIME and use it within > >the local context of that application *ONLY*. The encoded data is RARELY > >used inside of other applications, and the extracted data is typically > >used for this purpose, when needed. On the other hand, domain names are > >frequently cross-populated among applications, and as the argument > >regarding clipboards shows, the encoded form will be the norm. > > Many people copy-and-paste MIME content all the time, just as they > will copy-and-paste IDNs. Non-mail programs look at mail mailboxes > for things like harvesting for address books or PIMs, and those > programs interpret the MIME because they store the text in some > internal format that is certainly not MIME. MIME (and even RFC2047)encodes texts or descriptors , not ciritical identifiers like domain names as far as i understand. So, I can't accept any attemps to draw an analogy between MIME and IDN encodings. Soobok Lee
