> > Hello,
> >
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> Some notes for EAI reading call:
> > 1) page 12
> > "
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> for a variety of reasons, a UTF-8 local-part cannot be encoded as punycode or an A-label.
>
> Some readers may still prefer punycode. Can we list some detail reasons for why not?
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>
Do you mean for your own users or for others? For your own users you can
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do whatever you want with local parts including punycoding them, but
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since punycode looks like random text the addresses will be very hard to
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remember or to tell people. For others, it won't work because the
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punycoded address isn't the same mailbox as the UTF-8 address.
>
If we can list some reasons for readers in the document, they may not
ask us to recommend some punycode conversion again.
I think that Ajay and Edmon had discussed this issue in the January EAI
meeting.
Jiankang Yao