[governance] Internationalization of email addresses completed

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

Since we often talk about internationalization...

Three new RFCs have been published on friday. They (almost) finalize
the standards for the internationalization of email addresses (email
content in Unicode is standard since 1992). Soon :-) I'll be able to
use stéphane at bortzmeyer.fr with the accent. Congratulations for the
EAI Working Group.

Now, we can say that almost all the IETF standards are
Unicode-able. 

(The main missing one is FTP, which has an option TEXT which is only
for ASCII. An Unicode version is under work.)

        RFC 5335

        Title:      Internationalized Email Headers 
        Author:     Y. Abel, Ed.
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       September 2008
        Mailbox:    abelyang at twnic.net.tw
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 27945
        Updates:    RFC2045, RFC2822

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5335.txt

Full internationalization of electronic mail requires not only the
capabilities to transmit non-ASCII content, to encode selected
information in specific header fields, and to use non-ASCII
characters in envelope addresses.  It also requires being able to
express those addresses and the information based on them in mail
header fields.  This document specifies an experimental variant of
Internet mail that permits the use of Unicode encoded in UTF-8,
rather than ASCII, as the base form for Internet email header field.
This form is permitted in transmission only if authorized by an SMTP
extension, as specified in an associated specification.  This
specification Updates section 6.4 of RFC 2045 to conform with the
requirements.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community.

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


        
        RFC 5336

        Title:      SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email 
                    Addresses 
        Author:     J. Yao, Ed.,
                    W. Mao, Ed.
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       September 2008
        Mailbox:    yaojk at cnnic.cn, 
                    maowei_ietf at cnnic.cn
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 48110
        Updates:    RFC2821, RFC2822, RFC4952

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-eai-smtpext-13.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5336.txt

This document specifies an SMTP extension for transport and delivery
of email messages with internationalized email addresses or header
information.  Communication with systems that do not implement this
specification is specified in another document.  This document
updates some syntaxes and rules defined in RFC 2821 and RFC 2822, and
has some material updating RFC 4952This memo defines an Experimental 
Protocol for the Internet community.

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


        
        RFC 5337

        Title:      Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition 
                    Notifications 
        Author:     C. Newman, A. Melnikov, Ed.
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       September 2008
        Mailbox:    chris.newman at sun.com, 
                    Alexey.Melnikov at isode.com
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 36324
        Updates:    RFC3461, RFC3464, RFC3798

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-eai-dsn-06.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5337.txt

Delivery status notifications (DSNs) are critical to the correct
operation of an email system.  However, the existing Draft Standards
(RFC 3461, RFC 3462, RFC 3464) are presently limited to US-ASCII text
in the machine-readable portions of the protocol.  This specification
adds a new address type for international email addresses so an
original recipient address with non-US-ASCII characters can be
correctly preserved even after downgrading.  This also provides
updated content return media types for delivery status notifications
and message disposition notifications to support use of the new
address type.

This document experimentally extends RFC 3461, RFC 3464, and RFC
3798.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community.

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


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