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Re: drums2?

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> Wed, 21 August 2002 02:12 UTC

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In <200208191752.g7JHqA028041@astro.cs.utk.edu> Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:


>> 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.

Yes, you can do a nasty kludge like that, but it would be far better to
review the definition of local-part, and decide on a sensible structure
that carefully excluded the encoded forms.

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