Re: what is the real problem?

Keith Moore scripsit:

[much Good Stuff snipped]

> 6. Users need to be able to transcribe addresses that they receive in 
> email, whether in message headers or in a message body, and whether or 
> not their software supports the extensions that enable IMAs, and 
> whether or not the recipient knows the language and script in which the 
> sender normally writes his name and email address.  This is separate 
> from the need to reply to messages or store received addresses in an 
> address book.
> 
> (Note: #6 directly implies the need to support multiple versions of a 
> sender address, in order to provide a recipient with an address that he 
> can transcribe.)

This requirement strikes me as unreasonably broad: it demands not merely
multiple versions, but as many multiple versions as there are scripts.
I do not think that senders need to provide email addresses in any scripts
except those used to write languages they know, plus Basic Latin (ASCII).

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