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Re: drums2?

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Sun, 18 August 2002 19:56 UTC

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> >it is highly unlikely that IDNs will change the email syntax.
> 
> OTOH, any attempt to bring Internationalization into the local-part will
> almost certainly onvolve some restriction on its present flexibility, as I
> showed when we discussed this a few weeks back. That needs to be looked
> into before we cast it into concrete in its present form.

I don't see why introducing I18N into the local-part need restrict the
syntax or flexibliity for non-I18Ned local-parts.  As long as the I18N'ed
local-parts are a subset of the current syntax then I don't see why this
needs to affect 2822 or its successor.

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