The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Mailing Lists and non-ASCII Addresses' (draft-ietf-eai-mailinglistbis-05.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-mailinglistbis/ Technical Summary This document describes considerations for mailing lists with the introduction of internationalized email addresses. It outlines some possible scenarios for handling lists with mixtures of internationalized and traditional addresses, but does not offer implementation or deployment advice. Working Group Summary There were neither controversial nor tough decisions made in developing this draft. Document Quality This document does not specify a protocol. Instead, it outlines issues in the interactions between mailing lists and the protocols developed under the EAI effort. Protocol development work may be appropriate as experience with SMTPUTF8 systems and messages accumulates. Also, once work on internationalized versions of URIs becomes completely stable, it may be appropriate to revisit such specifications as RFC 2369 and RFC 2919 and update them if appropriate. That work is not part of the present EAI Charter and the WG does to propose to add it. In addition to several reviews of the core content of the document, Martin Duerst reviewed the draft thoroughly providing insights from the URI and developing IRI perspective. Personnel Joseph Yee is the Document Shepherd for this document. Pete Resnick is the Responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Notes NEW Obsoletes: 5983
