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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lovely questions! That is to say, I can answer one of them in the positive!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’ve used the CZDS to do some work involving IDNs and it worked as I expected. If there’s anything that should work differently, I didn’t come across it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">RDRS is okay as far as I know, but that’s a little artificial: You can’t have a Unicode mail address as contact address for a domain, so the RDRS simply doesn’t have to handle that.
I’m afraid I can’t say anything about ICANN Portal. No one has mentioned any problems in my hearing, and people are usually quick to mention problems, so I’m hopeful. Please do try (and tell me about any and all problems).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Maxim Alzoba <m.alzoba@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 22 January 2024 at 13:27<br>
<b>To: </b>Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>ua-discuss <Ua-discuss@icann.org>, "ua-eai@icann.org" <ua-eai@icann.org>, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Ext] Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-EAI] ICANN email system Supports the Internationalized Email Addresses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do we know if CZDS and RDRS and ICANN Portal (Salesforce based) are supporting IDN emails?
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International Relations Department,<br>
FAITID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 22 Jan 2024, at 15:11, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Arnt</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">ICANN like any other organisation is going to be reliant on software vendors and what they support.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are still finding vendors who don’t fully support IPv6, nevermind IDNs!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Michele
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Mr Michele Neylon</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Blacknight Solutions</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Hosting, Colocation & Domains</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blacknight.com/__;!!PtGJab4!8GUpbX50eDAVKFsHSblCJe7RPiKV5InbwKAalA4tyNF26b9ifmHsb-pAgVLnuuxjjhxeFFelRCtlKC9w6MBYY3zLnepq$"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.blacknight.com/</span>
[blacknight.com]</a></span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/blacknight.blog/__;!!PtGJab4!8GUpbX50eDAVKFsHSblCJe7RPiKV5InbwKAalA4tyNF26b9ifmHsb-pAgVLnuuxjjhxeFFelRCtlKC9w6MBYY7ksDYdV$"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://blacknight.blog/</span>
[blacknight.blog]</a></span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Personal blog: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/michele.blog/__;!!PtGJab4!8GUpbX50eDAVKFsHSblCJe7RPiKV5InbwKAalA4tyNF26b9ifmHsb-pAgVLnuuxjjhxeFFelRCtlKC9w6MBYY4kAaZjI$"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://michele.blog/</span>
[michele.blog]</a></span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Some thoughts: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ceo.hosting/__;!!PtGJab4!8GUpbX50eDAVKFsHSblCJe7RPiKV5InbwKAalA4tyNF26b9ifmHsb-pAgVLnuuxjjhxeFFelRCtlKC9w6MBYY0vUivHA$"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ceo.hosting/</span>
[ceo.hosting]</a></span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:-webkit-standard">I have sent this email at a time that is convenient for me. I do not expect you to respond to it outside of your usual working hours.</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Arnt Gulbrandsen via UA-discuss <Ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 22 January 2024 at 11:54<br>
<b>To: </b>ua-discuss <Ua-discuss@icann.org>, ua-eai@icann.org <ua-eai@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-EAI] ICANN email system Supports the Internationalized Email Addresses</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:#FFCACA"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[EXTERNAL EMAIL]</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please use caution when opening attachments from unrecognised sources.</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">And in case anyone wonders why it took so long: We had an incredible number of systems that needed testing and/or update. I knew that we had lots of automated systems to help with this process
and that, but even so, I was astonished to hear that there were well over a hundred systems that process mail. Fewer needed actual changes as a result of testing, but then while my colleagues were pushing vendors to fix some of these things, other colleagues
installed more new software.</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">ICANN has fewer than 500 employees and its work isn’t really complex. I wonder how many systems process mail at
<i>big</i> organisations.</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt">UA-EAI <ua-eai-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Jiankang Yao via UA-EAI <ua-eai@icann.org><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>Jiankang Yao <yaojk@cnnic.cn><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 22 January 2024 at 06:39<br>
<b>To: </b>ua-discuss <Ua-discuss@icann.org>, "ua-eai@icann.org" <ua-eai@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[UA-EAI] ICANN email system Supports the Internationalized Email Addresses</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun">Hello</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun">，</span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:SimSun"> ICANN has been working diligently to make all of its systems fully Universal Acceptance-ready and recently achieved a significant milestone: ICANN
staff can now send emails to and receive emails from internationalized email addresses.
<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-universal-acceptance-update-support-for-internationalized-email-addresses-18-01-2024-en">
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-universal-acceptance-update-support-for-internationalized-email-addresses-18-01-2024-en</a> </span><span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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