Re: [idn] =?UTF-8?B?UkU6IFtpZG5dIFJlOiBBbiBpZG4gcHJvdG9jb2wgZm9yIGNvbnNp?= =?UTF-8?B?ZGVyYXRpb24gaW4gbWFraW5nIHRoZSByZXEgdWlyZW1lbnRz?=

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 01:06 PM 2/10/00 -0800, ned.freed@innosoft.com wrote:
>And if anything the problem since then has gotten larger and more
>entrenched. (If you don't believe this, consider the difficulty of upgrading a
>system where email handling is implemented on a chip. Such things already 
>exist
>and are beginning to deploy -- see www.connectone.com for an example.

And another: iReady <http://www.iready.com/>. They make chips that go into 
fax machines so that those fax machines can handle Internet fax through 
email, which is a standard within the IETF. Which of you wants to be the 
one to tell the owners of those machines "yes, they followed the IETF 
standards just fine, but we changed those standards so your machines don't 
work now". You might leave off the part about "we didn't *have* to change 
them to not work, but we chose to anyway".

Like Ned, I'm still quite open to concrete proposals about how to make 
UTF-8 work, as long as they meet the other requirements this group has set 
out. And, since we're still working on the requirements, everyone has time 
to work on making their proposals meet the requirements the best.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium