Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 10:57 AM 9/4/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote: >> MIME (and even RFC2047)encodes texts or descriptors , not ciritical >> identifiers >>like domain names as far as i understand. > > How does that difference matter? What is it about that difference > that makes experience with MIME not apply for IDNA?
If I press the PRINT button on a MIME part in my mail reader, noone cares that the rendered MIME body, which is printed, is infeasible to put back into the original MIME part. If I press the PRINT button on an IDNA in my mail reader, it is important that people are able to put it back into the original IDNA [given some reasonable assumptions about the people]. IDNA will be used to identify entities. If there is any confusion as to which identity a certain IDNA really points at, there will be security consequences. MIME doesn't have this property.
