OUR GOAL FOR NEXT MEETING

In our meeting yesterday, I confirmed that we develop Best Practices as working group, rather than hiring someone else to do it. It will be fun!  

As a reminder, Charter Outcome #7 reads:

“Review, update and develop technical best practices and standards for the security and usability of EAI (e.g. dealing with homographs, script mixing, variant characters, right-to-left scripts, etc.)”

But we have already decided that our WG will just work on the portions needed by mail admins when creating local-parts (also called “mailbox names” and other things).

HOMEWORK PART 1: Reading

To get ready for a quick start next meeting, please read or skim the following documents from the Developers site < https://uasg.tech/information/developers/ >.

I am sorry that some are only available in English or Russian.

(a) Quick Guide to Email Address Internationalization (EAI)

UASG 014 An introduction to EAI (Email Address Internationalization), and items for email software developers and email service providers to consider.

English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG014-en-digital.pdf

This document is short, please review the whole thing.

(b) (EAI): A Technical Overview

UASG 012 Email Address Internationalization (EAI): A Technical Overview.

English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG014-en-digital.pdf

Pусский https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG012-ru-digital.pdf

In this document, I recommend reviewing:

                                             “Mail Addresses” (page 10)

                                             “Internationalized Domain Names” (pages 10-12)

                                             “Recognizing EAI messages” (page 14)

                                             “Technical Topics” (pages 15-16)

                                             “Address Books” (page 16)

                                             “MTAs and Incoming” (page 18)

                              “Backward Compatibility” (pages 24-28)

                              “Mail authentication and Spam filters” (pages 28-30)

(c) Introduction to Universal Acceptance

UASG 007 An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-en-digital.pdf

Español https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-es-digital.pdf

Français https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-fr-digital.pdf

عربى https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-ar-digital.pdf

中文 https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-zh-digital.pdf

Pусский https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG007-ru-digital.pdf

In this document, I recommend reviewing:

“Advanced Topics” (pages 25-30).

HOMEWORK PART2: List of Topics

Pitinan, Sarmad and I have started an initial topics list at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WdqJuIqWkSNHEeDequ3JGnHcE9Kl6QMrKlzEnQPQ5Zs [drive.google.com] to guide our discussion.

Please take a look at it to help you plan for the meeting.

It’s okay for you to add text to the document, but I prefer that you add your suggestions as Comments. That way one person’s edits won’t accidentally change or remove another person’s edits.

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