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

I suspect it would much more useful if people tried to characterize
what they and their cohorts want, rather than trying to characterize what some 
other group wants.

> This being said only Americans want/are satisfied with "internationalized" 
> (sic) names (the artificial extension of the American character set with 
> most of the American foreign scripting, within an ascii frame). No one 
> really wants multilingual names (a totally internationalized (sic) frame 
> supporting languages and therefore some language oriented rules - at least 
> ni management and user support). The users need vernacular support, that is 
> to be able to freely do in the mail what they use to do elsewhere.
> 
> I note that for non-American writers "international names" means names that 
> everyone from every nation will understand. It happens to be the ascii 
> character set limited to the DNS used names (they were selected for that 
> reason).
> jfc