Re: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> Fri, 20 September 2019 21:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)
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On Thu 2019-09-19 11:09:58 -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
> Operationally, I think that supporting Just Text merely means that if
> the field fails parsing rules (like Proposal 2) then it's Just Text
> and we're moving on.

Yep, completely agreed.  Nothing in my commentary in this thread is
meant to change the fundamental nature of the User ID as a UTF-8 string
at its core.

The goal is simply to more realistically state what the common
convention is for User IDs that are likely to be used in the e-mail
context.

        --dkg