Dear All, (apologies for cross-posting) UASG has undertaken an evaluation of email software and services for EAI support, as per the details below. The report and associated documentation is being shared for your review and feedback, before it is finalized and published. The first phase of this project, Discovery and Analysis, was completed September 2018 and published on the UASG’s website as UASG021A<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UASG021A.pdf>. That initial phase selected a broad set of components from the email software ecosystem to be analyzed, defined the test criteria to use when evaluating a particular piece of software, and provided an estimate of the effort required to evaluate a select few representative software and service offerings from that set. The resulting Discovery and Analysis Report<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UASG021A.pdf> and accompanying test criteria<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UASG021A.xlsx> can be found on the UASG’s website. The second and current phase of this project comprises a Proof of Concept Evaluation. A targeted set of software and service providers have been evaluated according to the criteria detailed by UASG021A. The purpose of this phase is to: 1. Confirm whether the evaluation criteria developed in the UASG021A report are fair and reasonable, amending or clarifying them where necessary, 2. Develop a template for reporting future test results, and 3. Determine the amount of effort required to evaluate additional email software and service providers. The third and final phase of the project will provide a more complete evaluation of the email software ecosystem, including a larger number of components and informed by the experience of this pilot. Please share your feedback at ua-discuss@icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> by 25 August 2019. Please visit https://uasg.tech/subscribe to self-scribe to this email list. Regards, Sarmad