Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <[email protected]>
> Gratuitous changes to deployed standards are never appreciated.

ok.

> >  > 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.

I think that the SMTP states that a server "MAY" / "SHOULD" reject instead
of "MUST".  It also specifies that it the local part MUST be interpreted by
the host.

Anyway, I understand where you are coming from,  so I would stop the
sentence as:

If no charset is specified, the server SHOULD assume that the client is not
IMAX compliant.

Would this be ok?

Edmon