[UA-discuss] Would this be in scope or not?

[Brent London]

>
> The standard for the mailbox name (as in mailbox at domainname) is that the
> treatment of the mailbox name is up to the domain name.  "Dots" are
> immaterial to mail operators (which has proven to be a surprise), the "+"
> might be treated specially, etc. I squirm when I think that there's a
> desire to think of email names as global and unique.  So, in a way, it
> seems like the wrong foundation for an ICANN effort.  (Languages have had
> to adopt '@' already.  Not sure about '+' and other syntactic sugar in
> mailbox names.


The practices mentioned here --- immaterial dots, treating +substrings
differently, case insensitivity ---  have evolved outside the context of
internationalized email addresses. I believe ICANN and this group can have
a real impact at promoting EAI (RFC 6532 et al) adoption while taking no
stance on subjective local-part practices like these.

(There might be areas where we choose to weigh in: local-parts are
technically case-sensitive, but one could imagine that there are security
implications if an e-commerce site were to allow user at example and
User at example to be separate accounts. But those problems already exist and
are not specific to EAI.)

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Richard Merdinger <rmerdinger at godaddy.com>
wrote:

> I'm going to agree with Ram that the most important thing that ICANN do at
> present is help in the essential Universal *awareness* elements of
> universal acceptance as well as with facilitation with the coordinating
> functions. - RSM
>
> > It's not clear to me that ICANN could drive a standard handling of
> mailbox names, I think that would be quixotic.  Then again maybe tackling
> mailbox names isn't necessary, maybe all we really need to do is get
> clients to work with an expanded definition of what a mailbox name is.
> (Lurking in me is the thought of "variants" and how they might cause
> trouble in mailbox names if there's no canonical form as defined in IDNA
> 2008 for domain
>
> [[Ram]] The goal would not be for ICANN to drive either the standard or
> adoption. Instead, the goal would be for ICANN to help improve awareness of
> the problem space, and then provide a coordination function so appropriate
> parties can determine solution sets for the defined problems.
>
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