From: John Levine
Date: 2018-04-11 22:29
To: Jiankang Yao
CC: Don Hollander; Mark Svancarek; ua-eai@icann.org
Subject: Re: some notes Re: EAI Reading Call
 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some notes for  EAI reading call:
> > 1) page 12
> > "
> > 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?
>
> Do you mean for your own users or for others?  For your own users you can 
> do whatever you want with local parts including punycoding them, but 
> since punycode looks like random text the addresses will be very hard to 
> remember or to tell people.  For others, it won't work because the 
> 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