[UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years...

[Ram Mohan]

I blame it on the culture, and on the humans who enable it. Agree that it's
not *just* the programmer's fault, although in your example below, he must
have been semi sedated to write code that catches a non 3/4 character tld,
and then pop up an error message; so inefficient :)

It's literally no extra work to change a regular expression match in code.
It's a kind of laziness combined with apathy that drives this.

Some developers depend on a dns lookup to determine a valid tld, while
others lookup a static list. Poor programming choices, much heartbreak lies
in those directions, too.

Ram

On Sep 29, 2016 2:51 PM, "Kurt Pritz" <kurt at kjpritz.com> wrote:

> Ram:
>
> I wouldn't necessarily blame it on the programmer:
>
> Boss: Hello young man. We have a bit of a problem to solve. Some of our
> web site users are mis-typing their email addresses. When different
> government departments need to get hold of them to correct an error on a
> form they submitted, we cannot. These government departments want us to do
> a check on their email addresses to at least make sure they are the right
> format and allowable content.
>
> Programmer: Sure thing. What's our budget for this?
>
> Boss: Zero.
>
> So, semi-smart solution for no budget.
>
> Kurt
>
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> On Sep 29, 2016, at 12:32 PM, "Jiankang Yao" <yaojk at cnnic.cn> wrote:
>
> Dear Ram,
>
>    I think that you can be titled as UA pioneer.
>
>  Another 15+ years are needed for UA work.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Jiankang Yao
>
> *From:* Ram Mohan <rmohan at afilias.info>
> *Date:* 2016-09-29 01:50
> *To:* UA-discuss <UA-discuss at icann.org>
> *Subject:* [UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+
> years...
> On Sep 12, 2001, I helped launch the first non 2/3 character TLD, .INFO.
> Many of you have heard about how we struggled to get applications,
> browsers, web forms and email systems to recognize the world’s first
> four-character TLD as a legitimate extension, including my creation of the
> Office of the CTO (in a 3 person startup) to get large companies to return
> my calls.
>
>
> Well, 15+ years later, today I was on the website of the Pennsylvania
> state government, and filled in my email address (ending in .INFO). I hit
> submit, and here is the prompt that came up. I hit OK, and the site
> accepted my email and I moved forward with my tasks, but it’s galling that
> some programmer _*recently*_ decided that a non 2/3 character TLD based
> email address merited a warning message.
>
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> <image001(09-29-10-27-48).png>
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> Goes to show how long bad habits persist. Also goes to show why the UASG’s
> work is important.
>
>
> -Ram
>
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