During last week’s discussion we talked about normalisation of case (upper case/lower case) and we affirmed our suggestions outlined in the Quick Guide to EAI. What are people doing about punctuation within a mailbox name? I THINK that Google strips all punctuation marks when finding the mailbox to deliver to. Thus, don.hollander@gmail.com <mailto:don.hollander@gmail.com> = don_hollander@gmail.com <mailto:don_hollander@gmail.com> = donhollander@gmail.com <mailto:donhollander@gmail.com> Is this another Good Practice to include in our EAI guides? Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group Skype: don_hollander
I think that this is nothing we should bother about. This is not one of our top ten problems, and we risk creating accidental implementation problems. Little details that turn out to be difficult to achieve. Here is an example: You may remember how marksv mentioned that adding EAI addresses is difficult because of integration. Office365 addresses are bound to Skype etc via the auth backend (details probably are different). If we say "addresses should do x" and Skype cannot do x, Microsoft has a problem which requires meetings and attention and general resources to resolve. Even if we say "it is a little advisable", one of Mark's less intelligent colleagues will miss the subtlety, raise the issue and it takes time. The same applies at other companies, expect that the compatibility problem is some other legacy code. The correct optimisation for us is to weigh simplicity of implementation heavier than everything else. IMO. Arnt
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen Date: 2017-04-19 16:43 To: ua-eai; Don Hollander Subject: Re: [UA-EAI] Normalisation norms
I think that this is nothing we should bother about.
Agree. We should do nothing about it. Even if there has a Normalization norm, some implementors will ignore it, then it will cause some inter-operatibility. So the best way is to do nothing. Jiankang Yao
How mail service providers managed punctuation characters (stripping or keeping it) do not affect the way normalization does. It can be discussed as best common best practice in email, but it's not about common best practice in UA. -Joseph On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Jiankang Yao <yaojk@cnnic.cn> wrote:
*From:* Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> *Date:* 2017-04-19 16:43 *To:* ua-eai <ua-eai@icann.org>; Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> *Subject:* Re: [UA-EAI] Normalisation norms
I think that this is nothing we should bother about.
Agree. We should do nothing about it. Even if there has a Normalization norm, some implementors will ignore it, then it will cause some inter-operatibility. So the best way is to do nothing.
Jiankang Yao
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