I-D Action:draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-12.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : Downgrading mechanism for Email Address Internationalization
	Author(s)       : K. Fujiwara, Y. Yoneya
	Filename        : draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-12.txt
	Pages           : 28
	Date            : 2009-03-03

Traditional mail systems handle only ASCII characters in SMTP
envelope and mail header fields.  The Email Address
Internationalization (UTF8SMTP) extension allows UTF-8 characters in
SMTP envelope and mail header fields.  To avoid rejecting
internationalized Email messages when a server in the delivery path
does not support the UTF8SMTP extension, some sort of converting
mechanism is required.  This document describes a downgrading
mechanism for Email Address Internationalization.  Note that this is
a way to downgrade, not tunnel.  There is no associated up-conversion
mechanism, although internationalized email clients might use
original internationalized addresses or other data when displaying or
replying to downgraded messages.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-12.txt

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Document Action: 'Downgrading mechanism for Email Address Internationalization' to Experimental RFC

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Downgrading mechanism for Email Address Internationalization '
   <draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-12.txt> as an Experimental RFC

This document is the product of the Email Address Internationalization 
Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Chris Newman and Lisa Dusseault.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-downgrade-12.txt

Technical Summary

    This document specifies a downgrading procedure for
    messages that are extended according to the EAI UTF8SMTP
    extension, when these are being sent to a recipient MTA
    that does not support the UTF8SMTP extension.

Working Group Summary

    The WG came to consensus on this document.

Document Quality

    The document has been reviewed in the WG.

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I-D Action:draft-ietf-eai-mailto-01.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : An update to the mailto URI scheme for Email Address Internationalization
	Author(s)       : M. Duerst
	Filename        : draft-ietf-eai-mailto-01.txt
	Pages           : 6
	Date            : 2009-03-09

This document updates the definition of the mailto: URI Scheme for
use with internationalized email addresses.

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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-mailto-01.txt

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I-D Action:draft-ietf-eai-downgraded-display-01.txt

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Email Address Internationalization Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : Displaying Downgraded Messages for Email Address Internationalization
	Author(s)       : K. Fujiwara
	Filename        : draft-ietf-eai-downgraded-display-01.txt
	Pages           : 13
	Date            : 2009-03-09

This document describes how to display downgraded messages which
originally contain internationalized E-mail addresses or
internationalized header fields.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-eai-downgraded-display-01.txt

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[Fwd: ID Tracker State Update Notice: draft-ietf-eai-downgrade]

Another milestone passed (at last)!

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary <at> ietf.org>
Subject: ID Tracker State Update Notice: draft-ietf-eai-downgrade
Date: 2009-03-05 17:46:07 GMT

IESG has approved and state has been changed to 'Approved-Announcement sent' by Amy Vezza.
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YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday

The YAM (Yet Another Mail) Working Group is having its first meeting
this Thursday at 3:10pm.

The first part of the charter is reproduced here. The full charter text
can be found at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki/YamCharter

	Tony Hansen
	co-chair

YAM will focus strictly on advancing email-related specifications for
which the community already has some years of experience with deployment
and interoperability. Its function is not to reopen or reconsider
protocols -- if a specification is found to need significant technical
work, YAM will remove it from the WG's agenda, optionally making a
recommendation to the community about how, or if, it should be processed.

This charter's scope of work is the set of email-related RFCs that are
currently at Draft Standard. Each document will be examined, along with
its errata, and a recommendation made as to whether it should be
advanced to Full Standard, republished at Draft Standard or Proposed
Standard, or moved to Historic. This working group will not work further
on documents that are to be republished at Draft Standard or Proposed
Standard.

Re: YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday (Tony Hansen)

Can someone tell me you YAM relates to IMA/EAI?  Eg: Are they going to consider the direction of EAI when
considering if these drafts should become standards?

I could easily imagine that some should have SHOULDs encouraging UTF-8 or at least awareness of
international limitations...

-Shawn

Re: YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday (Tony Hansen)

Hi Shawn,

Shawn Steele (???) wrote:

>Can someone tell me you YAM relates to IMA/EAI?  Eg: Are they going to consider the direction of EAI when
considering if these drafts should become standards?
>  
>
No, I don't think YAM will consider any EAI documents, until EAI 
documents become Proposed Standards.
But naturally, there is big overlap in participation between EAI and 
YAM, so I think the right thing would happen.

Also YAM is not tasked to do any syntactic changes to existing email RFCs.

>I could easily imagine that some should have SHOULDs encouraging UTF-8 or at least awareness of
international limitations...
>
This is in a gray area, but it would be worth raising in the YAM BOF.

Re: YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday (Tony Hansen)

>>I could easily imagine that some should have SHOULDs 
>encouraging UTF-8 or at least awareness of international limitations...
>>
>This is in a gray area, but it would be worth raising in the YAM BOF.

+1

I wonder: Is a standard with "international limitations" allowed to be promoted to Full Standard?
But, let's pick it up during the BOF.

Re: YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday (Tony Hansen)

I am unable to participate, but it'd be nice if this was discussed :)

Thanks,
Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Zoltan.Ordogh <at> nokia.com [mailto:Zoltan.Ordogh <at> nokia.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:46 PM
To: alexey.melnikov <at> isode.com; Shawn Steele (???)
Cc: ima <at> ietf.org
Subject: RE: [EAI] YAM (Yet Another Mail) WG Meeting/BOF on Thursday (Tony Hansen)

>>I could easily imagine that some should have SHOULDs
>encouraging UTF-8 or at least awareness of international limitations...
>>
>This is in a gray area, but it would be worth raising in the YAM BOF.

+1

I wonder: Is a standard with "international limitations" allowed to be promoted to Full Standard?
But, let's pick it up during the BOF.