Re: [EAI] Document Action: 'SMTP extension for internationalized email address' to Experimental RFC

[Chris Newman <Chris.Newman at Sun.COM>]

--On July 28, 2008 16:03:15 +0100 Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> 
wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:46:00 +0100, The IESG <iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The IESG has approved the following documents:
> >
> > - 'Internationalized Email Headers '
> >    <draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt> as an Experimental RFC
> > - 'SMTP extension for internationalized email address '
> >    <draft-ietf-eai-smtpext-13.txt> as an Experimental RFC
> >
> > These documents are products of the Email Address Internationalization
> > Working Group.
>
> I find it a matter of regret that the IESG has published these documents
> in spite of my complaint that they were inconsistent with existing Draft
> Standards.
>
> It remains my opinion that the message/utf8smtp feature is a clear breach
> of RFC 2045, and that it will not interwork with the bulk of deployed
> current servers.

Experimental data supporting your opinion would be most welcome to help 
evaluate the success and/or failure of this experiment.

		Thanks,
		- Chris

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