Internationalizing Email Adress BOF (iea) Monday, March 1 at 1530-1730 ============================ CHAIR: Pete Resnick presnick@qualcomm.com DESCRIPTION: The IEA BOF will discuss internationalization of email addresses. Although domain names in email addresses (everything to the right of the "@") are already internationalized by RFC 3490, the mailbox name (everything to the left of the "@") is not. The BOF will consider various proposals that would allow users to have internationalized mailbox names and how they would work with existing Internet mail. AGENDA: Overview of what has happened at the last BOF and the mailing list (10 minutes) Current proposals (15 minutes each): ACE on the LHS always UTF-8 on the LHS, protected by ESMTP UTF-8 in all headers, protected by ESMTP Address mapping in the MUA Where to go next (30 minutes)