Technical Summary
These two documents form the core specification for an
extension to SMTP and RFC 2822 that allow the use of
UTF-8 in message headers without encoding.
This includes the use of non-ASCII characters in email
addresses, both on the left and right hand sides of the
@ character.
Working Group Summary
The WG was chartered to explore one particular approach
to email internationalization, and succeeded in keeping
to that charter.
There was extensive discussion of one particular design
choice - on which MIME type to use.
Document Quality
The documents have been extensively reviewed by people
with mail expertise. There have been reports of
implementations, but no interoperability tests have been
reported to date.
Note to RFC Editor
The document draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt has a number of
English grammar issues and may require extensive editorial work,
please plan accordingly.
draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-12.txt header, please add:
Updates: RFC2045, 2822