Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

Mark Crispin writes:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>> As long as the email addresses are fully sufficient for communication 
>> with everyone with whom the user shares a language, it's okay.
>
> This mixes apples and oranges; that is, the ability to have an email 
> address in your native script with language ability.

Oh? They seem related: The ability to have an email address in script x 
is closely tied to knowledge of script x. Knowledge of script x is also 
closely tied to a language that is customarily written in script x.

But it's a distraction. Does anyone really think email addresses should 
be restricted _by_the_standard_ to some limited set of scripts?

--Arnt