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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I was thinking about the following levels of EAI support. We can assign each a different weighting dependent on importance of scenario (which is a judgment call we must make
up front), and measure support levels by how many points a client, server or service gets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Technical Support (clients)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can send to an EAI address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can send to an IDN-style email address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can receive from an EAI address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can receive from an IDN-style email address<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can associate EAI and IDN-style addresses as the same account for searching and sorting purposes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Technical Support (servers and services)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can receive mail sent to an EAI address and send it to a compliant client<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can receive mail sent to an IDN-style email address and send it to a compliant client<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Measuring and Monitoring Support<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can track the number of EAI accounts supported by each provider (e.g.. Coremail has ~50K; SaudiNIC is “negligible”; 163 is still at 0, etc.) as they are offered and grow over
time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can track the number of incoming EAI messages being received over time per provider<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Can track the number of incoming “IDN-style” messages being received over time per provider<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Abdeslam NASRI<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 13, 2016 11:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org>; UA-discuss@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] Wanted: Some thoughts on measuring EAI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hello Don and All,<br>
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In some earlier discussion with an EURid report présenter I suggested that UASG can issue a kind of UA IDN and EAI certification levels that can be acquired by software vendors and community developers. A certification level is gained by a software (client
app, server App or API) when a standardized Test Suite -automated or not- is passed successfully.<br>
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The Test Suite evolve over time as we keep discovering issues. Tests should go far beyond a few ping commands to protocol implementation level and optional functionalities.<br>
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This way, either ICANN or any organization can initiate the EAI-IDN-compliance-validation process.<br>
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Bests,<br>
Abdeslam NASRI <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org">Don Hollander</a></span><br>
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sent: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">4/14/2016 1:08 AM</span><br>
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org">UA-discuss@icann.org</a></span><br>
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Subject: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[UA-discuss] Wanted: Some thoughts on measuring EAI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">One of the things I would like to do is measure the extent of EAI deployment today (which is included in this year’s business plan and budget) and for each of the next few years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I’d also like to get a measure of how different client and server applications are able to handle both EAI and IDNs, with ‘handle' being the ability to ACCEPT and DISPLAY the different
permutations we’ve got in our UA Use Cases.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I think that there should be some automatable way of testing servers – perhaps sending an SMTPUTF8 Request and measuring the response. But how do we identify the servers to query?
Is there a list somewhere? Do we leverage the work of the Anti-Virus and Spam monitors?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Could we automate the client software evaluation or will this require an install and manual exercise and evaluation?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So, before we issue a Help Wanted request for email evaluation I would appreciate your thoughts on how we might do this evaluation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> Thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Don<o:p></o:p></p>
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