Re: drums2?

["Charles Lindsey" <[e-mail]>]

In <[e-mail]> Dave Crocker <[e-mail]> writes:


>At 09:36 AM 8/15/2002 +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>>I think it might be wiser to wait until the Internationalization issues
>>have been settled, or at least become clearer. For that we need IDN up and
>>deployed in the real world. We also need to look carefully at local-parts
>>to see whether they need to be restricted further (or at least have some
>>features moved to the obsolete section).

>you are talking about doing new technical work.  that's not what moving to 
>Draft is for.

Well reclassifying a few items into or out of the obsolete category is not
necessarily "new technical work" is it? Surely that is just tidying up.

OTOH, if a major change in email is shortly going to happen, namely hte
internationalization of addr-specs, then it does not seem to be the right
time to be bringing out a new standard that merely re-establishes the old
system.

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