-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Viktor Dukhovni said the following on 30/12/2013 04:55:

>> Indeed. SMTPUTF8 support involves more than the 1% that says "I can do
>> SMTPUTF8" in the EHLO handshake. There is a whole list of RFCs that need
>> to be supported first.
> 
> I think the RFCs in question are a mistake.  A far simpler and cleaner
> design would have been to extend Punycode to the local part of the address.
> 
Agreed.
Why not use the same algorithm used by IDNA (RFC3490)? There are already an
adopted RFC and a working algorithm, why reinvent the wheel?

Otherwise we could end up with an email address whit a local part encoded with
algorithm A and a domain name encoded with algorithm B.


Ciao,
luigi

- -- 
/
+--[Luigi Rosa]--
\

Law of the Perversity of Nature: You cannot successfully determine
beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

iEYEARECAAYFAlLBLgYACgkQ3kWu7Tfl6ZSNhwCeMBQLUYSF3+mtCqkOFMddo87Y
a8EAoLhlakYzz1Epxb1RiPlE0caQ9o/z
=0air
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Reply via email to