Re: changes between imaa-01 and -02

Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin writes:
> At 04:46 07/08/03, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>>     Should IMAA support case-sensitive mail exchangers?  No.
>
> I thought we made clear that yes. And that you made clear that 
> punnycode had no problem with it .

Today, some software needs to treat localparts as case sensitive and 
some as insensitive (e.g. an address book lookup). That's painful. To 
me, it makes very little sense to carry that forward into IMAA.

> Or am I wrong on the meaning. We need [email protected]  to land as 
> [email protected]. Up to Wanadoo to reduce it if it wants to 
> [email protected] or to [email protected] or not.

Why do we need that? And even if we do, a simple 'preserve case during 
handling' rule will do.

--Arnt
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