Re: Can we back up a bit and ask some basic questions?An alternate model

"Edmon Chung" <[email protected]> writes:

> I have just submitted the draft on IMA based on SMTP and POP extensions to
> the IETF.  You could also check it out at
> http://www.dnsii.org/draft-ietf-chung-imax-00.txt

This looks good IMHO.

Apparently, this seems to be a back-wards compatible way to make SMTP
and POP-3 accept internationalized mail addresses, thus making it
possible to gradually phase out the 7-bit legacy compatible punycode
hack.  I'm not sure the M-* headers is such a good idea though,
perhaps it is better to simply make this a way to enable non-ASCII in
SMTP and POP3 and leave header internationalization up to another
standard.  The M-From also seem to break the SMTP and RFC822 envelope
header dichotomy (MAIL FROM doesn't need to be the same as From:).

Add a IMAP capability in the same vein and we are set.