Il 12 marzo 2018 alle 18.50 Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com> ha scritto: Agree that we must always remind folks that EAI is (mainly) not for ICANN people who travel the world and are multilingual and know other multilingual people. EAI is (mainly) for people who speak only one language, read one language in a single writing system, and communicate only with people who speak/read/communicate with similar people.
Well, why? I mean, once EAI is widely supported, why should Indian or Japanese or Russian people still use ASCII email addresses at all? Of course people mostly email friends and local companies in their same script and language, which they'd do with an email address in their own script, but then, why would they need a separate ASCII email address for the rare cases when they have to email someone in a different part of the planet? In the end, the email address is a label and does not necessarily have semantic value (even today, there are people with addresses like j43@yrwx.com) - and if it has, it may even be false or misleading (paypal@example.com is not likely to be Paypal). You just use it and pass it on as it is - you may not even need to type it once, if you receive it by electronic means, including an incoming email. So what difference does it make if it is in a script that you can or cannot read? Regards, -- Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, Open-Xchange vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com Office @ Via Treviso 12, 10144 Torino, Italy