- From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:01:28 -0700
- To: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
I have a general question about this: It appears that this encoding is only used in IMAP headers. It is not (intended to be) used anywhere else, right? Then why does this need to be registered as a charset? It is confined to one single protocol, well defined in that context, and otherwise not exchanged, so it does not need to be declared anywhere. There are many ad-hoc "encodings" that are protocol-specific, not used outside their protocols, and therefore do not need to be registered as charsets - witness the current discussion about ways to squeeze Unicode into domain names. Those "ACEs" do not need to be registered. If it _is_ registered, I would go for "IMAP-mailbox-name". A full registration proposal should note "limited" use. Sincerely, markus PS: I _did_ read RFC 2060 "5.1.3. Mailbox International Naming Convention" (p. 14)
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