Re: [EAI] [Fwd: AD review of draft-duerst-mailto-bis-06.txt]

[Ted Hardie <ted.ietf at gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Shawn Steele
<Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com> wrote:
 On my machine if I open "run", then type mailto:shäwn, then Outlook
opens up with shäwn in the To: line.  Same thing happens if I stick it
in an href in an HTML document.  I think I even tried it with a
different browser (sorry, don't remember which one, don't have others
installed at the moment).  Of course I couldn't actually send the
mail, but the "mailto" part worked.

For "the 'mailto part" to be considered to have worked, the mail has
to get end to end, at least in my opinion.

The problem here is fundamentally that some part of the system has to
take what the user thinks is correct and turn into something that the
mail system can deliver.  The more pieces we allow to contain "what
the user thinks is correct" rather than "what the mail system can
deliver", the further down into the system any translation between the
two must occur.

Unless "shäwn" is a valid email address, showing that in a protocol
slot (which mailto is) seems like the wrong trade-off to me.

YMMV; offer not good in jurisdictions legislating the value of pi.

Ted