FIY: I-D Action:draft-duerst-eai-mailto-00.txt

I submitted a new version of the 'mailto' spec last Monday.

The main change is that it now includes EAI mail addresses (i.e. mail 
addresses with Unicode in the LHS). I expect that in due time, this 
aspect will be discussed in the EAI WG (but comments are welcome anytime).

I also made an attempt at changing the language from URI only to URI/IRI 
as used in draft-ietf-iri-4395bis-irireg-00. The intent of this mail is 
to report on my experience to help with further progressing of 
draft-ietf-iri-4395bis-irireg.

In draft-duerst-eai-mailto-00, there is only one section where "URI", 
rather than "URI/IRI", is used, and that's the example section (because 
all the examples are US-ASCII due to the format restrictions; I could 
actually have used "URI/IRI" there, too, because after all, every URI is 
an IRI by definition). I have to admit that overall, there were a bit 
too many "URI/IRI" strings for my taste. Maybe some rewording will help.

I did not yet define the mailto scheme in terms of an IRI, but I may do 
that in a future version.

Regards,    Martin.


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Subject: I-D Action:draft-duerst-eai-mailto-00.txt
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:01 -0800
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.

 Title           : The 'mailto' URI/IRI Scheme
 Author(s)       : M. Duerst, et al.
 Filename        : draft-duerst-eai-mailto-00.txt
 Pages           : 20
 Date            : 2011-03-06

This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URIs) and Internationalized Resource Identfiers (IRIs) to identify
resources that are reached using Internet mail.  It adds the
possibility to use Email Address Internationalization (EAI) email
addresses (RFC4952bis) to the previous syntax of 'mailto' URIs (RFC
6068).

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http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-eai-mailto-00.txt

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