Re: [openpgp] User ID addr-spec (was: Minor comments on current draft)

"Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org> Sun, 08 January 2023 21:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] User ID addr-spec (was: Minor comments on current draft)
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2023 19:45:53 +0100,
Ángel wrote:
> However, UserID like alice@home.org *are* used. I think the spec should
> replace name-addr with mailbox.
> 
> For reference, this is the syntax for them:
> > mailbox         =       name-addr / addr-spec
> > name-addr       =       [display-name] angle-addr
> > angle-addr      =       [CFWS] "<" addr-spec ">" [CFWS] / obs-angle-
> > addr
> 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#section-3.4
> 
> or just define the typical UserID contents ourselves.

See this thread for some previous discussion about this topic:

Subject: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:35:07 -0400
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Neal