[anti-abuse-wg] Non-ASCII characters in abuse-mailbox addresses

Ronald,

You're quite correct, albeit there is no harm in raising such matters here, the DB WG is absolutely the correct place to discuss and propose any changes and where the substantive discussion should take place. I should have mentioned this earlier in the conversation.

Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of
> Ronald F. Guilmette
> Sent: Tuesday 19 November 2019 20:33
> To: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Non-ASCII characters in abuse-mailbox
> addresses
> 
> In message <17839.1574194412 at segfault.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote:
> 
> >This is exactly what I had suggested.  Using only punycode for domain
> >names would restrict the representation of the domain names in the data
> >base to traditional 7-bit US-ASCII.
> 
> My apologies to everyone.  When I posted that reply I didn't even notice the
> fact that the representation of domain names in the data base was/is now
> being discussed also on the anti-abuse mailing list.  This very topic has already
> been discussed on the DB working group mailing list, which is arguably a more
> appropriate place for this discussion since abuse contact email addresses
> (and their associated domain name parts) are quite certainly not the only
> places where email addrsses may appear within the WHOIS data base.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg