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Regular Expressions for Internet Mail
draft-seantek-mail-regexen-00

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Document Type
This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Expired".
Expired & archived
Author Sean Leonard
Last updated 2016-09-22 (Latest revision 2016-03-21)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Stream WG state (None)
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IESG IESG state Expired (IESG: Dead)
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Responsible AD Alexey Melnikov
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Abstract

Internet Mail identifiers are used ubiquitously throughout computing systems as building blocks of online identity. Unfortunately, incomplete understandings of the syntaxes of these identifiers has led to interoperability problems and poor user experiences. Many users use specific characters in their addresses that are not properly accepted on various systems. This document prescribes normative regular expression (regex) patterns for all Internet- connected systems to use when validating or parsing Internet Mail identifiers, with special attention to regular expressions that work with popular languages and platforms.

Authors

Sean Leonard

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