<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Yes it is very helpful for the whole group.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Regards</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Iftikhar</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display:
block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:11 PM, Fahd Batayneh <fahd.batayneh@icann.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4514707516"><style>#yiv4514707516 #yiv4514707516 --
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</style><div><div class="yiv4514707516WordSection1"><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dennis,</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The link to the entire session can be found at <a href="http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum</a>. The transcript can also be found on the same link as a PDF file at <a href="http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum/transcript-public-forum-26jun14-en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"
shape="rect">http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum/transcript-public-forum-26jun14-en</a>.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">On your question of full EAI support or partial EAI support, I am not sure about that.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thank you,</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Fahd</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516yqt9397486151" id="yiv4514707516yqt16675"><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-image: none;"><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Tan Tanaka, Dennis [mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com] <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 27, 2014 8:06 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Jiankang Yao; Fahd
Batayneh; TF-AIDN (tf-aidn@meswg.org); LGR Mailing List; Variant IDN Project (vip@icann.org)<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> RE: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">This is indeed good news, however I’d like to confirm what you’ve heard at ICANN London (the link to the transcript below is not working for me). Is it EAI (eg <a href="mailto:福祥@邓.中国" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:福祥@邓.中国"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">福祥</span>@<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">邓</span>.<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">中国</span></a>) what they claim gmail will support or is it just IDN email (ie <a href="mailto:dennis@邓.中国" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
ymailto="mailto:dennis@邓.中国">dennis@<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">邓</span>.<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun;">中国</span></a>). I recently watched a presentation in Google I/O where they also talked about IDNs in email but it was not clear whether they will be supporting full EAI.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">If anyone could shed some light on this, it’d be greatly appreciated.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">Thanks!</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">Dennis</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);"> </span></div><div
class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-image: none;"><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Jiankang Yao [<a href="mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com">mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com</a>] <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:56 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Fahd Batayneh; TF-AIDN (<a href="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org">tf-aidn@meswg.org</a>); LGR Mailing List; Variant IDN Project (<a href="mailto:vip@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
ymailto="mailto:vip@icann.org">vip@icann.org</a>)<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"> </div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">A big news for EAI!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: none; height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false"
readonly="true"></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;">Jiankang Yao</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div></div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-image: none;"><div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;">From:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;"> <a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fahd.batayneh@icann.org">Fahd Batayneh</a></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(239, 239,
239);"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;">Date:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;"> 2014-06-27 00:08</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;">To:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;"> <a href="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org">mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org</a>; <a href="mailto:lgr@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lgr@icann.org">LGR Mailing List</a>; <a href="mailto:vip@icann.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:vip@icann.org">mailto:vip@icann.org</a></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><b><span style="color: black;
font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;">Subject:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 9pt;"> [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail</span></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">Friends and Colleagues,</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">During the Public Forum at ICANN 50 in London, <i>Jordyn Buchanan</i> from Google confirmed that Gmail will support EAI on their platform by the end of this month.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color:
black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); text-align: justify; margin-left: 0.5in; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="color: black;">… by the end of this month gmail is going to be the first major mail platform with full EAI support, so you'll be able to email back and forth with gmail users at least …</span></i></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">You can find the scribe at <a href="http://www.streamtext.net/player/carttranscript?event=SANDRINGHAM-26Jun2014" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.streamtext.net/player/carttranscript?event=SANDRINGHAM-26Jun2014</a>.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal"
style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">A good step forward for Universal Acceptance of IDNs.</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">Thank you,</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">Fahd Batayneh</span></div><div class="yiv4514707516MsoNormal" style="text-align:
justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: black;">ICANN</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>