On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:05:17AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: > > > >> In addition, it might be good to introduce [inet?] types for RFC 5322 > >> (Internet Message Format) including perhaps: > >> > >> - email-address (addr-spec, per Section 3.4.1) > >> - named-email-address (name-addr, per Section 3.4) > >> > > > > Where are these used? Or have these already been used somewhere? > > I'm unaware of these ever having been used before. I am working on a private > module for which I want to configure an email address. After some searching, > I concluded that no such types have been defined, and thus thought that they > might be good candidates for addition. >
It would be good to have strong use cases. I fear that defining this type won't be easy given that we also have internationalized email addresses (RFC 6530 provides an overview) and we might have to create a union of RFC 5322 addresses and "SMTPUTF8 (compliant) addresses". /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
