This is good work … just a few observations for your consideration:

• “NB: This is all EAI Phase 1 readiness, the ability to Send To and Receive From all email addresses.” –  Consider adding the definition of “EAI Ready” in the document. You could infer the definition by reading the first part of the document but it would be helpful if it is defined somewhere in a more prominent way.
• “The EAI Readiness by TLD is potentially interesting.  I’ve asked John to see if there are any marked differences with IDN TLDs” – This is an interesting statistic to measure overtime, i.e. ASCII vs IDN domains.

-Dennis

From: UA-EAI <ua-eai-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org>
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 1:15 PM
To: "ua-eai@icann.org" <ua-eai@icann.org>, "ua-coordination@icann.org" <ua-coordination@icann.org>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org>, Evan Hanson <evanh@catalyst.net.nz>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [UA-EAI] Draft Results: EAI Readiness

John Levine has run an analysis of the EAI Readiness of the Internet’s mail servers.

His DRAFT report is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/18W-dAr1Nhe_gVlFKDQZqsqB4bf5N86wryEcALnyUPTc/edit#heading=h.dba7p1kazxqa

This has some interesting findings:

1) We now have a baseline measurement of EAI Readiness so we can measure progress over time.   NB: This is all EAI Phase 1 readiness, the ability to Send To and Receive From all email addresses.   This does not address the issue of being able to host an EAI address.  That’s being done in a separate effort.

2) We also have a list of the large MTAs (that announce their platform).   This will be useful as we pursue the last phase of the EAI Evaluation. 

3) We’ve also seen the impact of Microsoft’s online facilities becoming EAI ready earlier this year.

4) The EAI Readiness by TLD is potentially interesting.  I’ve asked John to see if there are any marked differences with IDN TLDs.  

Before John does any more work on this, I’m putting it out to this group for comments.

Once we’re happy with the results we’ll publish this as a report and on our Dashboard.   We’ll also schedule this to be run once a quarter.

Comments are welcome.

Don

Don Hollander

Secretary General – UASG

Skype: Don_Hollander