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The "valid e-mail address" definition doesn't accept IPv6 emails #1638
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The HTML specification changed in January to reference RFC 6531 which means more or less anything with an '@' sign in the middle should be valid. Your reference is to the WHATWG spec and I don't know why they seem uninterested in supporting modern email addresses. If I misunderstood the RFC and we still don't support IPv6 addresses that was an oversight and we should fix it. Otherwise, I think this issue can be closed... |
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Forgive me, I filed it under a wrong repo! I’ll re-check with WHATWG... Thank you for your time. |
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Submitted to WHATWG HTML as whatwg/html#4089. |
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The "valid e-mail address" definition in the spec:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#valid-e-mail-address
doesn't accept emails with an IPv6 host like
xyz@[IPv6:2001::1]. E-mails like that are defined in "RFC 5321 (SMTP)" in section 4.1.3:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.1.3
We've got an issue in AngularJS about not supporting such e-mails:
angular/angular.js#16599
and I noticed the HTML standard doesn't do that either. Is it a conscious decision? If yes, what are the reasons?
I searched the issues & PRs but the word "IPv6" doesn't return any results.
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