- From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:28:35 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, uri@w3.org
At 4:21 PM -0700 6/17/05, Larry Masinter wrote: >I'm puzzled about whether the full 'address' or 'mailbox' >specification is actually implemented, or whether the >actual URI use is limited to RFC2822's 'addr-spec'. I have seen 'mailbox' be implemented, very badly. I have never seen anyone blow 'addr-spec'. >I'm thinking that the right thing to do is to include the >full ABNF for whatever it is that "mailto" actually accepts, >and then describe the mapping to/from RFC 2822 addresses, >rather than leave a vague reference to 2822. Imagine the URL quoting problems to properly do 'mailbox'. Really. I simply can't imagine that many people would do it correctly, even after a few tries. And I can imagine that they could do it very insecurely if we expand the definition. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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