The IESG has received a request from the Email Address Internationalization WG (eai) to consider the following document: - 'Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email' <draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis-12.txt> as a Proposed Standard Please note that an earlier revision of this document was already approved by the IESG for publication as Informational. This document has references to and from draft-ietf-eai-5335bis and draft-ietf-eai-5336bis. As a result of IESG comments during IESG Evaluation of those two documents, the WG felt that they needed to make changes to this document and change its status to Standards Track from Informational. It is now being re-considered for Proposed Standard. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-11-14. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract 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 a replacement for RFC 4952; it reflects additional issues identified since that document was published. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-frmwrk-4952bis/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
