Comment 12 for bug 265016

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In , Momoi (momoi) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)
> William, the mailing list and IDs are about non-ASCII characters in the local
> part of email addresses. That's not what IDN is about.

Are we sure about this? Is there unanimity of opinions about using IDN on the
righ side of the "@"? Is that what J. Klensin's propsal allows?

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-emailaddr-i18n-02.txt

As I recall, there was a big discussion about Hofmann vs Klensin proposals at
the IETF meeting last Fall. Does anyone know what was settled there and if IDN
is the agreed upon fromat for the domain part?