Re: if you really want utf-8 headers...

Martin Duerst <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:10:33 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <4.2.0.58.J.20040105114503.034b91a8@localhost>
At 01:34 04/01/01 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:

>Universal adoption of IMAAs is anything but assured.  The largest age 
>group of the world population is fairly young (say, less than 21 years 
>old) .  Many of these people have grown up with cheap travel and good 
>communications, and an international popular culture.   They are used to 
>dealing with people from other countries, and in multiple languages. Many 
>of these people may find that  IMAAs don't benefit them so much and that 
>it's easier to get all email at an ASCII address (or for that matter at an 
>E164 number using ENUM) than it is to deal with IMAAs.

There are definitely a lot of young people who travel cheaply.
But there are also a lot of people who can't afford to travel,
but who still might be able to use a computer at some public
place. And while we can't do anything to make travel cheaper,
we can work on making computers easier to use, for everybody.

Regards,   Martin.