Re: quick & dirty alternate addresses

At 08:05 03/12/01 +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:

>While we're considering new header fields and new address-mapping
>servers to deal with the problem of having alternate addresses, we ought
>to consider how far we could get with what we already have.

Hello Adam,

I won't comment on the details of your proposal. But I think it's
very good to explore the design space around alternate addresses.
While there are important interactions with Paul's UTF-8 header
proposal, both technically as well as in terms of deployment,
what exact scheme we pick is in many ways just a detail.

Up to now, we have the following alternate address schemes
(please tell me if I missed some):

- Keith's alternate address lookup servers
- Adam's alternate addresses in encoded words
- Paul's Address-map: header
- Calculated alternates using some ACE

For Paul's draft, that suggests to split out the method of
getting to alternate addresses at least into a separate
chapter (maybe later even into a separate draft), so that
it's easy to replace without having to rewrite the whole
document.


Regards,    Martin.