Re: [IEE] WG Review: Email Address Internationalization (eai)

Hello Dave,

At 17:47 06/02/27, you wrote:

 >> It may be the first time somebody is saying that using all 8 bits
 >> that TCP/IP provides needs a research effort.
 >
 >Since it is not what I said, it probably does not help dialogue to 
represent my concern this way.

Sorry to start my comments with this somewhat provocative and
simplifying statement.

You still may want to answer the rest of my mail.

I also agree with what Yangwoo Ko has said, and you seem to agree
to a large extent, too. My understanding is that we are all not
sure how well deployment will work, and we are very well aware
of the fact that deployment will be critical, and we need to work
hard to try to come up with finetuned proposals that do the best
in this respect.

Taking that back to the IRTF vs. Experimental discussion, it seems
to me that the only way to do research (if you want to call it that)
about deployment issues is to actually try to, at least experimentally,
deploy the technology. Testing out different alternatives/configurations/
settings as one would usually do in research doesn't seem like an
option. In my view even the Experimental stamp will hold back some
real-world deployment that might happen with Proposed. That's why
I said that I personally preferred Standards track: It's better to