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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='margin-left:7.5pt;margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dennis,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'>The link to the entire session can be found at <a href="http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum">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">http://london50.icann.org/en/schedule/thu-public-forum/transcript-public-forum-26jun14-en</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'>On your question of full EAI support or partial EAI support, I am not sure about that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fahd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Tan Tanaka, Dennis [mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 27, 2014 8:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jiankang Yao; Fahd Batayneh; TF-AIDN (tf-aidn@meswg.org); LGR Mailing List; Variant IDN Project (vip@icann.org)<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>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"><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">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>If anyone could shed some light on this, it’d be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'>Dennis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jiankang Yao [<a href="mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com">mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Fahd Batayneh; TF-AIDN (<a href="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org">tf-aidn@meswg.org</a>); LGR Mailing List; Variant IDN Project (<a href="mailto:vip@icann.org">vip@icann.org</a>)<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'>A big news for EAI!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'><hr size=1 width=210 style='width:157.5pt' noshade style='color:#B5C4DF' align=left></span></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'>Jiankang Yao<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#EFEFEF'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'> <a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@icann.org">Fahd Batayneh</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#EFEFEF'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'>Date:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'> 2014-06-27 00:08<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#EFEFEF'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'> <a href="mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org">TF-AIDN (tf-aidn@meswg.org)</a>; <a href="mailto:lgr@icann.org">LGR Mailing List</a>; <a href="mailto:vip@icann.org">Variant IDN Project (vip@icann.org)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#EFEFEF'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:SimSun;color:black'> [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:#D9D9D9'><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 …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;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">http://www.streamtext.net/player/carttranscript?event=SANDRINGHAM-26Jun2014</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>A good step forward for Universal Acceptance of IDNs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>