RFC 3696, "Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names", February 2004

Errata ID: 1004
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Charles Curran
Date Reported: 2007-09-09
Verifier Name: John C. Klensin
Date Verified: 2007-09-09

Section 4.3 says:

   +-------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+
   |      Email address      |         MAILTO URL          |   Notes   |
   +-------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+
   |     Joe@example.com     |  mailto:joe@example.com     |     1     |

...

   Notes on Table

   1.  No characters appear in the email address that require escaping,
       so the body of the MAILTO URL is identical to the email address.

It should say:

   +-------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+
   |      Email address      |         MAILTO URL          |   Notes   |
   +-------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+
   |     Joe@example.com     |  mailto:Joe@example.com     |     1     |

...

   Notes on Table

   1.  No characters appear in the email address that
       require escaping, so the body of the MAILTO URL is
       identical to the email address.  Because the local part
       of email addresses may be treated as case-sensitive by
       the system hosting the mailbox (see RFC 2821, Section
       4.1.2), "mailto:joe@example.com" would not be a valid
       URL for the mailbox Joe@example.com even though, if the
       recommendations of RFC 2821 are followed, it would work
       as a synonym.  See also Section 6.2.3 of RFC 3986.

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