Re: [EAI] Quick comments on draft-ietf-eai-mailto-00

[John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, 19 February, 2008 18:26 +0900 Martin Duerst
<duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:

>> (1) This is really ugly.  Perhaps nothing can be done about
>> it, but I think that is worth noting, especially since we
>> have gone out of our way to make
>> non-ASCII-string at non-ASCII-string.whatever.tld a value email
>> address.
> 
> What are you referring to by "This"? If it's all the
> %-escaping, then I fully agree with you. That's why we have
> IRIs :-). I can guarantee that the draft would contain quite a
> few IRI examples if the ID/RFC format allowed non-ASCII.
> 
> But we can't change the fact that we have to escape '<' and '>'
> and so on.

Understood.  And that was, in fact, what I was referring to.

   john


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