> On Oct 30, 2018, at 03:14, Juergen Schoenwaelder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:05:17AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: >> >> >>>> In addition, it might be good to introduce [inet?] types for RFC 5322 >>>> (Internet Message Format) including perhaps: >>>> >>>> - email-address (addr-spec, per Section 3.4.1) >>>> - named-email-address (name-addr, per Section 3.4) >>>> >>> >>> Where are these used? Or have these already been used somewhere? >> >> I'm unaware of these ever having been used before. I am working on a >> private module for which I want to configure an email address. After some >> searching, I concluded that no such types have been defined, and thus >> thought that they might be good candidates for addition. >> > > It would be good to have strong use cases. I fear that defining this > type won't be easy given that we also have internationalized email > addresses (RFC 6530 provides an overview) and we might have to create > a union of RFC 5322 addresses and "SMTPUTF8 (compliant) addresses”.
It would be slightly unfortunate I think if we were to define something that was obsolete at the time of definition. So yeah the union of all-ascii addresses and non-ascii addresses is in fact SMTPUTF8. To my mind that would be what you would specify, and that probably requires discussion. > > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
