Hello John, Thanks for your followup to the I18N directorate's review of your draft. Copying the EAI mailing list, since they might have some ideas. On 2019/03/20 05:57, John Levine wrote: > In article <155255732161.2699.16055637076396529424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: > > Here's a terminology question. > >> "Since a policy record can >> be used for both internationalized and conventional mail, those >> addresses still have to be conventional addresses, not >> internationalized addresses." >> -> >> "Since a policy record can >> be used for both internationalized and conventional mail, those >> addresses still have to be ASCII-only addresses, not >> internationalized addresses." >> (We don't want to give the impression that addresses with non-ASCII characters >> are non-conventional.) > > What do we call mail that's not EAI mail? Maybe just that, 'non-EAI mail'? Or something like "mail that needs the SMTPUTF8 extension for transmission"? Or "mail with non-ASCII addresses"? > It's not ASCII mail, since > non-EAI messages can contain any character sets you want in the > message body. And in comments in headers, if properly encoded. > Some people call it legacy mail which seems kind of jumping the gun. I wish we could use that term, but I agree it's a bit early. Also, even if it were appropriate now, it's not precise enough. Regards, Martin.
