Re: Taxonomy of proposals so far

Paul Hoffman / IMC writes:
> Given the lull in the discussion, it might be a good time to look at 
> what is in front of us. A few orthogonal and related proposals have 
> come forth. Some of what appears here has been suggested in off-list 
> discussions.
>
> Here is a first cut at a taxonomy of proposals for internationalizing 
> the mailbox names and their transport. Note that the names appear in 
> the From, To, Cc, and Received headers (and maybe others).

The chart is not complete for arbitrary header fields, such as 
X-Send-Abuse-Complaints-To (a name I invented, but surely someone uses 
it, *sigh*), where the SMTP server doesn't know whether the octets in 
question form an address or something else.

Bruce Lilly wrote an excellent treatise on that subject recently, 
archived under 
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.ciqnt72.1v2smb6%40ifi.uio.no

I don't think it needs to be complete for that case. It's just something 
to be aware of.

--Arnt