<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">During a discussion today on creating a UA Issues Logging system, one of the question that came up was the scale of the problem.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We know for certain that UA Failure occurs. Our testing shows that in the edge case of <a href="mailto:unicode@idn.idn" class="">unicode@idn.idn</a> email addresses works less than 5% of the time. At the other end of the scale, an ascii@2nd.new4characterTLD works more than 90% of the time.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Toward addressing this issue, I would appreciate it if Registrars, ISPs & Hosting Providers - who are most likely to have direct engagement with registrants - could provide me - off list - some indication of their view of the scale of the problem based on evidence from your Help Desk system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you very much.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">Don Hollander<div class="">Universal Acceptance Steering Group</div><div class="">Skype: don_hollander</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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