<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://562/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ram: <div><br></div><div>I wouldn't necessarily blame it on the programmer: </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Programmer: Sure thing. What's our budget for this?</div><div><br></div><div>Boss: Zero.</div><div><br></div><div>So, semi-smart solution for no budget.</div><div><br></div><div>Kurt</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Sep 29, 2016, at 12:32 PM, "Jiankang Yao" <<a href="mailto:yaojk@cnnic.cn">yaojk@cnnic.cn</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="#954f72" link="#0563c1" style="line-height: 1.5; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 10px; "><div>Dear Ram,</div><div> </div><div> I think that you can be titled as UA pioneer.</div><div> </div><div> Another 15+ years are needed for UA work.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><hr align="left" size="1" style="width: 210px; height: 1px; "><div><span>Jiankang Yao</span></div><div> </div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); "><div style="padding: 8px; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); font-size: 12px; "><div><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">Ram Mohan</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2016-09-29 01:50</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">UA-discuss</a></div><div><b>Subject:</b> [UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years...</div></div></div><div><div class="FoxDiv20160929102748194704" style="line-height: 1.5; font-size: 10.5pt; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">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 _<i>recently</i>_ decided that a non 2/3 character TLD based email address merited a warning message.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span><image001(09-29-10-27-48).png></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Goes to show how long bad habits persist. Also goes to show why the UASG’s work is important.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">-Ram</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Ram Mohan</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Executive Vice President & CTO</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Afilias |Ireland|Canada|USA|India|China</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><a href="Skype:gliderpilot30">Skype:gliderpilot30</a> |@rmohan123|<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>