The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email' <draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis-10.txt> as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alexey Melnikov and Peter Saint-Andre. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis/ Technical Summary Full use of electronic mail throughout the world requires that (subject to other constraints) people be able to use close variations on their own names (written correctly in their own languages and scripts) as mailbox names in email addresses. This document introduces a series of specifications that define mechanisms and protocol extensions needed to fully support internationalized email addresses. These changes include an SMTP extension and extension of email header syntax to accommodate UTF-8 data. The document set also includes discussion of key assumptions and issues in deploying fully internationalized email. This document is an update of RFC 4952; it reflects additional issues identified since that document was published. Working Group Summary There were nothing controversal nor even rough for this document. Document Quality This document does not describe any protocols in detail, that belongs to other documents. Ernie Daindow, Tony Hansen, Shawn Steele, and Jiankang Yao reviewed the document thoroughly and suggested text to improve it. The general protocol collection described in this document derives from prior Experimental protocols that were implemented and tested. The results of those experiments, focusing on what should be done differently as a result, are discussed in this document. At least those who implemented the Experimental protocols, and presumably some others, are likely to implement the standards-track protocols as soon as they are considered stable. There appears to be significant worldwide demand for the facilities being specified by the EAI WG and outlined in this document. Personnel Joseph Yee is the Document Shepherd. Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
