Re: [EAI] Last Call: <draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis-07.txt> (Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email) to Proposed Standard

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

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:15:43 +0100, Julien ÉLIE <[e-mail]>  
wrote:

> * In section 11 about additional issues, would it be worthwhile adding
> a paragraph about Netnews gatewaying?

It might be reasonable to mention that EAI could be adapted to Netnews (I  
believe it would fit quite nicely), but that would be merely an aside,  
pointing out that it was "Future Work".

Indeed, an EAI extension SHOULD be written for Netnews, but this group, as  
currently chartered, is not the place to do it. Maybe some future WG, or  
maybe even an individual submission.

> News articles can also be PGP-signed (for control articles, moderated
> newsgroups, de-spamming bots, etc.) so it is still not advisable to
> use an i18n mail address in a From:, Sender: or Approved: header field
> for instance...

I don't really see a problem there.
>
> (I hope that one day we will have UTF-8 newsgroup names and that
> we will be able to send mails to an i18n email address that will be
> posted (by gatewing) to an i18n newsgroup.)

And obviously UTF-8 newsgroups names would be a principal feature of any  
future EAI-extended Netnews.

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