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From: Maria Kolesnikova <masha@cctld.ru>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2026 6:20 PM
To: 'Joke Braeken' <joke.braeken@icann.org>; 'Bart Boswinkel' <bart.boswinkel@icann.org>
Cc: 'el@lisse.na' <el@lisse.na>
Subject: RE: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Re: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4)

 

Dear all,

 

I would like to suggest the following potential topics/speakers for UAC + Tech Day (Monday 9 March, block 4), for your consideration:

 

  1. It would be good to ask NIXI or another representative from the host country to make overview of their EAI project in Rajasthan with the main focus on the current status/how many EAI addresses are in real use now/what problems have been faced/what results have been achieved and other possible details. More on the RajMail project here: https://uasg.tech/2018/12/rajasthan-states-new-email-project-brings-millions-of-hindi-speakers-online/

This project could be a good example of how to implement EAI with government support.

 

  1. A new Request for Comments has become available in online RFC libraries recently. It concerns EPP Protocol and EAI thematic. As variant, we could ask one of its authors to talk about the main scope of this new RFC.

 

 

        RFC 9873

 

        Title:      Additional Email Address Extension for

                    the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)

        Author:     D. Belyavsky, J. Gould, S. Hollenbeck

        Status:     Standards Track

        Stream:     IETF

        Date:       October 2025

        Mailbox:    beldmit@gmail.com,

                    jgould@verisign.com,

                    shollenbeck@verisign.com

        Pages:      22

        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai-27.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9873

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9873

 

The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) does not inherently

support internationalized email addresses because the specifications

for these addresses did not exist when EPP was developed. This

document describes a command-response extension that adds support for

associating an additional email address with an EPP contact object.

That additional email address can be either an internationalized

email address or an ASCII-only address.

 

  1. Presentation on the latest technical developments re UA readiness with the main focus on the world’s big tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) + the most popular open source software (particularly, manufacturers of mail software with EAI support)  +  manufacturers of hosting panels (Cpanel, Plesk, etc.)  could be provided by Arnt Gulbrandsen arnt.gulbrandsen@icann.org probably. He is from the ICANN technical staff. Although, I believe it’s better to check with Arnt if he is providing any similar update at another ICANN85’s Prep week or the meeting  sections. If not, then this update would be very useful for the ccNSO and more broader ICANN community.   

 

We also discussed that the UA Roadmap for registries and registrars, developed by ICANN (https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-publishes-ua-roadmap-for-domain-name-registry-and-registrar-systems-25-01-2023-en), could be of some interest for ccTLDs, so ICANN staff could cover this topic, too. For this, we could at least ask Arnt to shortly remind about this document for ccTLDs during his speech, if there is no enough time for a separate speaker at the Tech Day section Block 4 (60 min).

 

As a variant, the UA roadmap could become a basis for a separate technical webinar/training by ICANN for ccTLDs, gTLDs and registrars on how to make their registries/registration systems UA Ready…just thoughts.

 

  1. If we want to cover ccTLD or gTLD cases re UA Readiness, I could suggest our Cyrillic IDN TLD .РФ story. We have implemented EAI support in most parts of our infrastructure and also are planning this year to add EAI support into the registry. The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ or the Technical Center of Internet’s speaker could present this topic in details.

 

 

 

Hope it helps.

 

Maria

 

 

 

From: Bart Boswinkel <bart.boswinkel@icann.org>
Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 13:46
To: ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee-bounces@icann.org>
Cc: "el@lisse.na" <el@lisse.na>
Subject: Tech Day roundtable on Universal Acceptance (Monday 9 March, block 4)

 

Dear all,

As you will recall from last meetings before the break, the UAC needs to agree on proposal on the format and presenters for the roundtable during Tech Day in Mumbai.

To date the following was discussed:

 

Proposal for discussion

 

Suggest this is main topic for discussion tomorrow on the UA call

Kind regards,

Bart