- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:13:03 +0100
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org Tracking WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > > According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2368 and > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822, RFC 2368 (mailto: URI scheme) and > RFC 2822 (email addresses among other things) have neither been > obsoleted nor updated. > > It seems to me that this leaves email addresses with IDNs and mailto: as > an IRI scheme undefined. Web Form 2.0 allows IDNs in <input > type='email'>. Moreover, I think mailto: as an IRI scheme should be > defined in an IDN-aware such a way that the host part of an email > address would get the Punycode to ASCII treatment instead of the percent > escaping treatment. > > Are there upcoming drafts that I'm unaware of that define these things > properly or is everyone just supposed to infer the right updates to the > old specs? It may be part of what the EAI working group is doing: <http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/eai-charter.html>. BR, Julian
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