Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

At 7:03 PM -0500 2/24/03, Edmon Chung wrote:
>if you think that changing the max line lengths is to big, I will take it
>out.

Gratuitous changes to deployed standards are never appreciated.

>  > The second paragraph of section 2.3 sure sounds like it would bounce
>  > things instead of doing an ACE fallback.
>
>This describes the situation today!

No, it doesn't. The situation today is that sending non-ASCII in SMTP 
is forbidden.

>  > Where in the IMAA document does it say that? I believe you are
>>  completely wrong here.
>
>Yes it does say that support for ACE (to be updated to Punycode in -01 or
>when the RFC is out, as I said I wrote this 2 years ago...) is mandatory.
>ACE and UTF8 is mandatory.  Please refer to last paragraph of section 2.2.

I was asking about IMAA, not IMAX. Simon claims that Punycode is 
required for IMAA, and I asked where in IMAA it says that.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium