That is why we should provide libraries and implementation suggestions (good practice guides), so that management can then let them know also that go look at the UASG website for some information. Edmon From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Pritz Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:51 PM To: Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> Cc: ua-discuss <UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years... Ram: I wouldn't necessarily blame it on the programmer: Boss: Hello young man. We have a bit of a problem to solve. Some of our web site users are mis-typing their email addresses. When different government departments need to get hold of them to correct an error on a form they submitted, we cannot. These government departments want us to do a check on their email addresses to at least make sure they are the right format and allowable content. Programmer: Sure thing. What's our budget for this? Boss: Zero. So, semi-smart solution for no budget. Kurt ________________ Kurt Pritz kurt@kjpritz.com <mailto:kurt@kjpritz.com> +1.310.400.4184 Skype: kjpritz On Sep 29, 2016, at 12:32 PM, "Jiankang Yao" <yaojk@cnnic.cn <mailto:yaojk@cnnic.cn> > wrote: Dear Ram, I think that you can be titled as UA pioneer. Another 15+ years are needed for UA work. _____ Jiankang Yao From: <mailto:rmohan@afilias.info> Ram Mohan Date: 2016-09-29 01:50 To: <mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> UA-discuss Subject: [UA-discuss] Some universal acceptance problems last 15+ years... On Sep 12, 2001, I helped launch the first non 2/3 character TLD, .INFO. Many of you have heard about how we struggled to get applications, browsers, web forms and email systems to recognize the world's first four-character TLD as a legitimate extension, including my creation of the Office of the CTO (in a 3 person startup) to get large companies to return my calls. Well, 15+ years later, today I was on the website of the Pennsylvania state government, and filled in my email address (ending in .INFO). I hit submit, and here is the prompt that came up. I hit OK, and the site accepted my email and I moved forward with my tasks, but it's galling that some programmer _recently_ decided that a non 2/3 character TLD based email address merited a warning message. <image001(09-29-10-27-48).png> Goes to show how long bad habits persist. Also goes to show why the UASG's work is important. -Ram ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias |Ireland|Canada|USA|India|China o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701 Skype:gliderpilot30 |@rmohan123| <http://www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan> www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan