The IESG has approved the following documents: - 'Internationalized Email Headers ' <draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt> as an Experimental RFC - 'SMTP extension for internationalized email address ' <draft-ietf-eai-smtpext-13.txt> as an Experimental RFC These documents are products of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Chris Newman and Lisa Dusseault. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-smtpext-13.txt Technical Summary These two documents form the core specification for an extension to SMTP and RFC 2822 that allow the use of UTF-8 in message headers without encoding. This includes the use of non-ASCII characters in email addresses, both on the left and right hand sides of the @ character. Working Group Summary The WG was chartered to explore one particular approach to email internationalization, and succeeded in keeping to that charter. There was extensive discussion of one particular design choice - on which MIME type to use. Document Quality The documents have been extensively reviewed by people with mail expertise. There have been reports of implementations, but no interoperability tests have been reported to date. Note to RFC Editor The document draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt has a number of English grammar issues and may require extensive editorial work, please plan accordingly. draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt header, please add: Updates: RFC2045, 2822 _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
