On 18/10/2011 21:05, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 08:26:11PM +0200, Stefan Sels wrote: > >> I just wanted to ask if there are intentions to support the new upcoming >> i18n RFCs 5335, 5336 and 5337 listed here: >> >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/eai/ >> >> 5336 defines an SMTP extension to allow the use of UTF8 within >> local-parts, the hostname part (i guess) is still handled via IDN. > > My assessment is that EAI (as proposed in the RFCs you quote) is > a terrible design. I personally would prefer that nobody implement > these IMNSHO ill-conceived standards. >
Can you suggest a better standard to encode international characters into local-parts? And, if I may ask - as there are 12 days to moan about until it probably gets finalized- did you complain about this to the working group? What are the specific flaw you dislike? greetings, stefan
