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Re: drums2?

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Mon, 19 August 2002 17:52 UTC

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> You need therefore some foolproof way to distinguish between an encoded
> local-part and an unencoded one. This means placing some restriction on
> local-parts as presently defined.

you do the same thing that IDN did:

- you pick an encoding that is extremely unlikely to have been used in 
  a real local-part.

- you *always* use the encoded form on the wire.

it doesn't require a change to the message format.

Keith

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