Re: [EAI] Last Call: draft-ietf-eai-framework (Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email) to Informational RFC

[Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm.com>]

At 8:44 PM +0100 1/17/07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> >  (2) In section 1.3:
> >     An "i18mail user" has one or more non-ASCII email addresses.  Such a
> >     user may have ASCII addresses too; if the user has more than one
> >     email account and corresponding address, or more than one alias for
> >     the same address, he or she has some method to choose which address
> >     to use on outgoing email.  Note that under this definition, it is not
> >     possible to tell from the address that an email sender or recipient
> >     is an i18mail user.  There is no such thing as an "i18mail message";
> >     the term applies only to users and their agents and capabilities.
> >
> >  Does the second-to-last sentence refer to an ASCII address, or any 
> > address?  The wording implies any address, but if an address is 
> > non-ASCII, surely that is a good sign that the owner of that 
> > address is an i18mail user?
>  Right. The situation that is being warned against is taking an 
> ASCII address as a clear sign that the address owner is not an 
> i18mail user.

I'd like to see the text improved to make this more clear.  As a 
suggestion, replace:

     Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
     the address that an email sender or recipient is an i18mail user.

with:

      Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
      an ASCII address if an email sender or recipient is an i18mail
      user or not.
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Randall Gellens
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