Re: [EAI] Last Call: draft-ietf-eai-framework (Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email) to Informational RFC

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At 8:44 PM +0100 1/17/07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

 (2) In section 1.3:
    An "i18mail user" has one or more non-ASCII email addresses.  Such a
    user may have ASCII addresses too; if the user has more than one
    email account and corresponding address, or more than one alias for
    the same address, he or she has some method to choose which address
    to use on outgoing email.  Note that under this definition, it is not
    possible to tell from the address that an email sender or recipient
    is an i18mail user.  There is no such thing as an "i18mail message";
    the term applies only to users and their agents and capabilities.

Does the second-to-last sentence refer to an ASCII address, or any address? The wording implies any address, but if an address is non-ASCII, surely that is a good sign that the owner of that address is an i18mail user?
Right. The situation that is being warned against is taking an ASCII address as a clear sign that the address owner is not an i18mail user.

I'd like to see the text improved to make this more clear. As a suggestion, replace:

     Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
     the address that an email sender or recipient is an i18mail user.

with:

      Note that under this definition, it is not possible to tell from
      an ASCII address if an email sender or recipient is an i18mail
      user or not.
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