Folks, On the theory that discussions go better when they have a concrete deliverable, here is a proposed charter for a proposed working group. The following started with Mark Crispin's text, although it might not look it. Besides the usual goals for a charter, the following text attempts to specify the problem domain in the narrowest feasible form that is valid. If anyone thinks the scope is too narrow, they need to explain why. DRAFT CHARTER Mail Internationalised Local-Part (MILP) --------------------------------- The <local-part> portion of RFC2822 and <Local-part> portion of RFC2821 mail addresses are restricted to a subset of ASCII. This poses a fundamental barrier for users needing mail addresses to be expressed in a richer set of characters, such as Latin characters with diacriticals and the many Asian characters. The goal of the current work is to add local-part support for these additional characters, while preserving the large, installed base of ASCII usage. The group will take: draft-hoffman-imaa-03.txt draft-klensin-emailaddr-i18n-01.txt draft-duerst-iri-04.txt as input to discussions. The group will pay particular attention to barriers to adoption and utility, as well as any impact the new scheme might have on the existing base of Internet mail usage. Milestones ---------- Nov, 03: BOF Dec, 03: WG chartered Feb, 03: Initial draft of working group specifications. Jun, 03: Specifications submitted for IETF approval d/ -- Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com> Sunnyvale, CA USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>