There's still a hole in Apple's user ID mapping that doesn't recognize [email protected] and [email protected] are the same person and the e-mails go to the same place.
If you accidentally approve creating an Apple ID that's some variation on your e-mail it opens up your account to human phishing attacks. Just call apple support and raise hell until someone makes a mistake.
The RFC mentions dot-atoms in address elements are locally interpreted. There's no rule specifying if x.y.z or xyz are equivalent or not. The issue for me is that an Apple ID looks just like an e-mail address. [email protected] and [email protected] are equivalent to Gmail but not to Apple. From that I believe it creates an opportunity for confusion.
If you accidentally approve creating an Apple ID that's some variation on your e-mail it opens up your account to human phishing attacks. Just call apple support and raise hell until someone makes a mistake.
The RFC mentions dot-atoms in address elements are locally interpreted. There's no rule specifying if x.y.z or xyz are equivalent or not. The issue for me is that an Apple ID looks just like an e-mail address. [email protected] and [email protected] are equivalent to Gmail but not to Apple. From that I believe it creates an opportunity for confusion.