Re: [idn] Document Status?

["Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hoffman / IMC" <phoffman@imc.org>
To: <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] Document Status?


> At 3:34 PM -0500 9/3/02, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> >Specifically, end-nodes typically extract data from MIME and use it within
> >the local context of that application *ONLY*. The encoded data is RARELY
> >used inside of other applications, and the extracted data is typically
> >used for this purpose, when needed. On the other hand, domain names are
> >frequently cross-populated among applications, and as the argument
> >regarding clipboards shows, the encoded form will be the norm.
> 
> Many people copy-and-paste MIME content all the time, just as they 
> will copy-and-paste IDNs. Non-mail programs look at mail mailboxes 
> for things like harvesting for address books or PIMs, and those 
> programs interpret the MIME because they store the text in some 
> internal format that is certainly not MIME.
 
MIME (and even RFC2047)encodes texts or descriptors , not ciritical identifiers 
like domain names as far as i understand. 
So, I can't accept any attemps to draw an analogy between MIME and IDN encodings.

Soobok Lee