This is indeed good news, however I’d like to confirm what you’ve heard at ICANN London (the link to the transcript below is not working for me). Is it EAI (eg 福祥@邓.中国<mailto:福祥@邓.中国>) what they claim gmail will support or is it just IDN email (ie dennis@邓.中国<mailto:dennis@邓.中国>). I recently watched a presentation in Google I/O where they also talked about IDNs in email but it was not clear whether they will be supporting full EAI. If anyone could shed some light on this, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Dennis From: Jiankang Yao [mailto:healthyao@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 9:56 PM To: Fahd Batayneh; TF-AIDN (tf-aidn@meswg.org); LGR Mailing List; Variant IDN Project (vip@icann.org) Subject: Re: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail A big news for EAI! ________________________________ Jiankang Yao From: Fahd Batayneh<mailto:fahd.batayneh@icann.org> Date: 2014-06-27 00:08 To: TF-AIDN (tf-aidn@meswg.org)<mailto:tf-aidn@meswg.org>; LGR Mailing List<mailto:lgr@icann.org>; Variant IDN Project (vip@icann.org)<mailto:vip@icann.org> Subject: [vip] Email Address Internationalization (EAI) and Gmail Friends and Colleagues, During the Public Forum at ICANN 50 in London, Jordyn Buchanan from Google confirmed that Gmail will support EAI on their platform by the end of this month. … by the end of this month gmail is going to be the first major mail platform with full EAI support, so you'll be able to email back and forth with gmail users at least … You can find the scribe at http://www.streamtext.net/player/carttranscript?event=SANDRINGHAM-26Jun2014. A good step forward for Universal Acceptance of IDNs. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN