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

At 04:01 31/10/03, Sam Roberts wrote:
>Quoteing [email protected], on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:39:26PM -0500:
> > So are you suggesting creating email addresses that look like:
> >
> > 4301@908-410
> >
> > which would translate to an existing phone number 908-410-4301
>
>Huh? What does that have to do with multi-lingual email addresses?
>
>I'm suggesting that email addresses should be at least as useable as
>telephone numbers. I can dial anywhere in the world on any handset
>using 0-9, any email scheme that ends in me not being to email a
>french friend because I'm in outer Mongolia, and the keyboard doesn't
>do e-grave is going to be a pain in the ass, and nobody will thank you
>for it.

This is a perfect example of real life vernacular. Thank you.
jfc