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Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 30 October 2018 10:14 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:05:17AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> 
> 
> >> In addition, it might be good to introduce [inet?] types for RFC 5322 
> >> (Internet Message Format) including perhaps:
> >> 
> >>   - email-address        (addr-spec, per Section 3.4.1)
> >>   - named-email-address  (name-addr, per Section 3.4)
> >>
> >
> > Where are these used? Or have these already been used somewhere?
> 
> I'm unaware of these ever having been used before.  I am working on a private module for which I want to configure an email address.  After some searching, I concluded that no such types have been defined, and thus thought that they might be good candidates for addition.
>

It would be good to have strong use cases. I fear that defining this
type won't be easy given that we also have internationalized email
addresses (RFC 6530 provides an overview) and we might have to create
a union of RFC 5322 addresses and "SMTPUTF8 (compliant) addresses".

/js

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