[UA-EAI] Help with wording, please

[Jim DeLaHunt]

EAI WG Colleagues:

When reviewing the EAI Readiness Self-Certification Guide, we got stuck 
on some wording. Can the people on the list help us find better wording?

The Guide is at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PopXtNog8nJzdpYQcl1JMyIH2gNYJ4_r/edit# 
. In the section, "Self-Certification of EAI Support of Email Utilities 
and Tools", in the table, row 3, it reads, "Product supports mailbox 
names spelled with UTF-8 characters".

“supports” is too vague. Maybe we should break this row into separate 
verb/rows, such as accept,/stores/displays/processes/ validates, where 
applicable?

The verb "spelled with" seems incorrect. Maybe it should say, 
"consisting of UTF8-encoded characters"?

The products in question are /not/ email UIs and mail servers and 
senders/receivers. We are concerned with other email-related but 
non-email tools, such as anti-spam filters, calendars, contact managers, 
applications which use email addresses as identifiers, etc.

What we are trying to say is that it is not acceptable to limit email 
address mailbox parts to ASCII only. The product must accept and work 
with email addresses which have UTF-8 characters in the mailbox part. 
(We don't care about mailbox parts which are in non-Unicode character 
sets beyond UTF-8 and ASCII.)

We are having a terrible time finding the right wording. Can you help?

Thank you,
      —Jim DeLaHunt


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