Thank you for the announcement. Clarity is good, I guess. On 2024-09-20 03:08, Seda Akbulut via UA-EAI wrote:
Dear EAI WG,
Thank you for your hard work on developing the Email Address Internationalization (EAI) guidelines that will allow entities globally to self-certify that they meet these technical requirements.
During the Coordination WG’s 07 May 2024 meeting, Mark Svancarek, the EAI WG chair, asked ICANN org whether ICANN org or the UASG could publish the self-certification scores on UASG.tech as part of the self-certification program.
Is this date right? It really took over four months for ICANN to respond to Mark's question?
…once these entities have completed the self-certification, they may download the corresponding score badge (silver, gold, platinum) and use this badge on their respective websites to highlight this important achievement.…
This message, and the accompanying web page content, sets up a frame of first-party certification: the software maker evaluates and certifies their own products. I think that third-party certifications will be very important for the awareness and power of these labels to communicate to the marketplace. That is, someone evaluates a product which they did not make. A coalition of email equipment customers might want to know what products help their members. A testing agency might be hired to publish an evaluation. A software maker might even want to point out that their competitor does not support EAI well. As far as I am concerned, those are all legitimate uses of the self-certification guide. The term "self" in "self-certification guide" primarily means, "UASG will not be doing the certification". It does not mean, "only the product's maker may attempt to certify that product".
…Attached are the updates for the EAI Program page based on this,including new badge designs for download,additional program details,and a disclaimer.…
These updates does not include the most powerful idea behind the program: that the goal is to create a market segment, by creating labels by which buyers and sellers can communicate about EAI support. I would like this webpage to have room for that language. It is reasonable to ask the EAI WG to come up with that language. Perhaps use these updates as one revision, and then plan for a further revision with text about "create a market segment"? Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt -- --Jim DeLaHunt,jdlh@jdlh.com http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/) multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, Canada