---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Email Address Internationalization (EAI) WG meeting in Anaheim Meeting: IETF77, Monday, March 22,2010, 1740-1940 Place: Room Huntington, Hilton, Anaheim, CA, USA Chairs: Harald Alvestrand , Xiaodong Lee lee@cnnic.cn ===================================================== 1740 - Scribe, blue sheet, agenda bashing 1750 - Documents status update draft-ietf-eai-mailinglist AD Evaluation draft-ietf-eai-downgraded-display RFC Ed Queue (AUTH48) draft-ietf-eai-framework RFC 4952 draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers RFC 5335 draft-ietf-eai-smtpext RFC 5336 draft-ietf-eai-dsn RFC 5337 draft-ietf-eai-downgrade RFC 5504 draft-ietf-eai-pop RFC 5721 draft-ietf-eai-imap-utf8 RFC 5738 1800 - Downgrade discussion Downgrade Design Team (DDT) membership introduction DDT results introduction DDT results discussion Downgrade summary or conclusion 1900 - AD's comments to WG 1905 - New charter discussion The proposed charter is below 1935 - A.O.B (any other business) 1940 - meeting adjourn ------------------------------------------------------- Description of Working Group: The email address has two parts, local part and domain part. The email address internationalization needs to deal with them. This working group's previous experimental efforts investigated the use of UTF-8 as a general approach to email internationalization. That approach is based on the use of an SMTP extension to enable both the use of UTF-8 in envelope address local-parts and optionally in domain-parts and the use of UTF-8 in mail headers -- both in address contexts and wherever encoded-words are permitted today. Other protocols were similarly extended. This working group has finished all of its deliverables under the original charter. Several of the WG's experimental RFCs based on UTF8SMTP extension have been proven during the experimental phase and now need to be moved to standards track. The WG recommends the "no fallback" approach which will remove the alt-address and recognizes that "no fallback" provides a very minimal transition mechanism, however we feel that "no fallback" is better than allowing downgrade to block further progress. Discoverable fallback addresses may be investigated independently of the core documents as non-standards track. Any such work would be an optional MUA/submission protocol, independent of the core transport documents. Additionally there are some other areas which may require more effort to make the smooth operation of internationalized email address. Deliverables The following deliverables are foreseen in this charter. The WG chairs may (re)structure the deliverables into specific documents or document sets as needed. Adding or removing documents outside of these deliverables will require a charter update. * Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email(Info/Standard) * UTF-8 SMTP extension specification (Standard) * Header format specification (Standard) * Internationalized DSN specification (Standard) * UTF-8 POP specification (Standard) * UTF-8 IMAP specification (Standard) Additional possible documents suggested: * Advice for MUA implementors (Info) * Advice for EAI deployment (info) * Advice for non-ASCII and ASCII addresses for the same mailbox (Info) * Mailinglist(info) * Mailto(Standard) Goals and Milestones: Mar. 2010 Discussion of Recharter for standards track May. 2010 New charter approval from IESG June 2010 EAI Framework to IESG July 2010 Headers (Standard) to IESG July 2010 SMTP (Standard) to IESG July 2010 DSN (Standard) to IESG Aug. 2010 IMAP & POP3 (Standard) to IESG Sep. 2010 Advice for non-ASCII & ASCII addresses (Info) to IESG Oct. 2010 Advice for MUA implementors (Info) to IESG Oct. 2010 Advice for EAI deployment (info) to IESG Oct. 2010 Mailinglist (info) to IESG Oct. 2010 Mailto(Standard) to IESG