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Re: Remaining open issues for RFC-2401bis



>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:

 Michael> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
 Michael> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Why wouldn't an "account
 Michael> name" be represented as ID_RFC822_ADDR?

 Paul> Because not all accounts have English names?

 Michael> 1) we have ways of encoding UTF-8 into From:/To: lines, we
 Michael> could use that.

Yes, but that's a kluge to retrofit other character sets into a 7-bit
limited protocol.  We don't need to carry those things forward into
non-ancient protocols.

	    paul