+1 & Florian hit the mail, uh, the nail on the head with real world use, we 
should start with a 'simple' PGP/DNS/SMTP solution and go from there.  I expect 
emails with all case variance of [email protected] to land in my mailbox, 
and looked up in openpgpkey with [email protected]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dane [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Rößner
> Sent: June-19-15 3:04 AM
> To: John Levine
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [dane] AD review of draft-ietf-dane-openpgpkey-03
> 
> 
> > Am 19.06.2015 um 01:56 schrieb John Levine <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Concerning different things like user@ or user+foo@, CNAME is an option
> that works.
> >
> > You can certainly use CNAMEs for aliases, and they will work in tiny
> > examples.
> >
> > Given that there are over 500,000 ways to spell my single
> > unexceptional gmail address, which doesn't even have anything like
> > +foo extensions, I would think that the scaling issues would be
> > obvious.
> 
> My argument was not for case-sensitive emails. It was for:
> 
> - different emails
> - local parts with or without extension
> 
> All treated lowercase. Like real world
> 
> I do not understand this discussion. RFCs for SMTP. ok. That is one point. 
> Just
> think about paper mail. Would you expect that a letter arrives at your home, 
> if
> people write you name in different ways? Yes of course! :-) So why this
> theoretical discussion about things that nobody on earth does use.
> 
> If I answer your mail here and I write [email protected], do you expect it to
> arrive or do you say this is somebody else? I bet you expect the mail has to
> arrive in your mailbox and nowhere else. No matter what the RFCs say. You
> expect this mail to land at your mailbox.
> 
> So this is the reason why I say, local part for PGP and SMIMEA MUST be
> lowercase looked up.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Christian
> 
> N.B. sorry for my english. May sound harsh. Isn’t meant so.
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