Re: New draft, new idea

Paul Hoffman / IMC scripsit:

> This proposal starts were Adam and I did with IMAA (be client-only), 
> but goes even further in making it unobtrusive. Basically, there is 
> an optional map in the headers which tell an MUA how to display 
> mailbox names in headers. Mailbox names remain the same: they just 
> get displayed differently.

I think this is the best idea yet.  It will need some enhancement to
specify the legal character set (presumably the same as in IDNA)
in the displayedLHS.

The only downside I see is that users will have to publish two
email addresses in places like business cards (the hard copy kind),
and people who naively enter the wrong one into their down-level
clients will get bounces or other bad results.  In addition, 
if an email-address-assigner screws up and hands out the same displayedLHS
twice, we may have two mailboxes that appear to have the same address
at the MUA level.

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