From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 05:52:00 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> I don't think it is quite as quick as that. You could not use NAMEPREP for
> local-parts (some other variant of STRINGPREP would be needed, at the
> least).
If you chose your label delimiters wisely, you probably don't have to
make any further changes at all.
> And you would need to restrict the definition of local-part so as
> to leave room for some way to detect automatically which ones needed to be
> decoded and which ones really were that funny string.
It's very unlikely that local-parts be that funny to be misinterpreted
as encoded strings.
> The the main problem is that nobody is actively trying to generate such a
> spec at the moment (and it is a job for the mail people, not for us).
Ack.
Claus
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