Re: 3280bis internationalization section

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Paul,

Thanks for the review.  I will be happy to make the suggested changes in 
Section 7.2.  

I am also concerned about the email address syntax, but my worries were focued 
on the local part.  I hadn't considered dropping the entire section 7.5, but 
that might be the safest course!  I had made some assumptions about handling 
the host part; incorrect assumptions would have a very bad result.

I hope to corner Patrik Falstrom to discuss this before leaving Minneapolis, 
and will report his opinions to the list.

Thanks,

Tim

Quoting Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>:

> 
> Greetings again. The new section 7 on internationalization in 3280bis 
> is very good. A few comments:
> 
> - In 7.2, the bulleted lists make it seem like you don't have to do 
> step 2, which you do. New wording might be:
> 
>        * perform step 1 with the domain name treated as a "stored
>        string";
>        * perform step 2;
>        * perform step 3 with the flag called "UseSTD3ASCIIRules" set;
>        * perform step 4 by processing each label with the "ToASCII"
> operation;
>        * perform step 5 by changing all label separators to U+002E (full
> stop).
> ...and...
>        * perform step 1 with the domain name treated as a "stored
>        string";
>        * perform step 2;
>        * perform step 3 with the flag called "UseSTD3ASCIIRules" set;
>        * perform step 4 by processing each label with the "ToUnicode"
> operation;
>        * step 5 is not needed.
> 
> - Section 7.5 should be removed. There is nothing currently being 
> considered in the IETF that relates to this. If there is later an 
> IETF standard for internationalized left-hand-sides in email 
> addresses, that standard can also extend the PKIX format.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
> 
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> 
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