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Re: [EAI] Document Action: 'SMTP extension for internationalized email address' to Experimental RFC

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Mon, 28 July 2008 15:03 UTC

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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:46:00 +0100, The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
wrote:

> The IESG has approved the following documents:
>
> - 'Internationalized Email Headers '
>    <draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt> as an Experimental RFC
> - 'SMTP extension for internationalized email address '
>    <draft-ietf-eai-smtpext-13.txt> as an Experimental RFC
>
> These documents are products of the Email Address Internationalization
> Working Group.

I find it a matter of regret that the IESG has published these documents
in spite of my complaint that they were inconsistent with existing Draft
Standards.

It remains my opinion that the message/utf8smtp feature is a clear breach
of RFC 2045, and that it will not interwork with the bulk of deployed
current servers.



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