Re: Algorithm for comparing two email addresses (draft-ietf-smime-3850bis)?
Barry Leiba <leiba@watson.ibm.com> Thu, 08 January 2009 19:11 UTC
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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:11:36 -0500
From: Barry Leiba <leiba@watson.ibm.com>
To: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM>, apps-discuss@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Algorithm for comparing two email addresses (draft-ietf-smime-3850bis)?
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I'm with Paul on the DISCUSS question. The proper method for comparing addresses has to be specified somewhere (I'm not sure your algorithm is even complete; what about RFC 2047 encodings; what about Unicode issues when we go to EAI?), but it's not here, and this shouldn't be held up for it. At the most, I'd ask that they put in a notation that the right side SHOULD be treated as ASCII-case-insensitive. As to where such a document belongs, I suggest EAI: since it's changing the rules, it should probably document them. [For what it's worth, I think this is related to the issue of mail loops in sieve-notify-mailto, and sieve-vacation, along with other instances in other places. There may be a need for a BCP about certain aspects of dealing with email, and it needs to be tackled. But we can't just pick some unfortunate victim that happens to mention the problem and say, basically, "You touched it; you fix it."] Barry _______________________________________________ Apps-Discuss mailing list Apps-Discuss@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss
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