Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

---- Original Message -----
From: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: "Kent Watsen" <kwatsen@juniper.net>
Cc: <netmod@ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 10:14 AM

> 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.

We could defined a user-name, of the form localpart@domainpart as is
widely used to identify a user in operations but which does not, in my
experience, owe anything to i18n, just a straightforward character set;
yes it would not boil the ocean, but could be useful.  I am surprised
not to find such a definition somewhere in our 40 or so NETCONF I-Ds.

Tom Petch

> >
>
> 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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