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UA Activities Report (July 2022 and November 2023)

This report provides Universal Acceptance (UA)-ready code samples that can be used freely (BSD 3 License included) to make software systems completely UA-ready.

This report provides Universal Acceptance (UA)-ready code samples that can be used freely (BSD 3 License included) to make software systems completely UA-ready.

Web servers, email servers, and backend databases provide the building blocks of a website’s functionality. This report reveals that to what extent the web hosting tools offer the capacity for […]

Web servers, email servers, and backend databases provide the building blocks of a website’s functionality. This presentation reveals that to what extent the web hosting tools offer the capacity for […]

Annexes include test data, the test cases tested for the 9 environment configurations, and ISPConfig Patch.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Universal Acceptance (UA) messaging for various stakeholders on how UA enables digital inclusivity, provides business opportunities, and delivers career growth.

Updated UA-readiness evaluation of widely used browsers that now includes bookmark and favorites testing.

Updated UA-readiness evaluation of widely used browsers that now includes bookmark and favorites testing.

UA-readiness evaluation of the most popular social media applications used worldwide.

UA-readiness evaluation of the most popular social media applications used worldwide.

Test cases for developers for evaluating systems for Universal Acceptance-readiness. See UASG 004A for the corresponding data file.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

This report captures a summary of scope of UA, documents the current gaps in technology related to UA-readiness, and provides an update on the activities undertaken by the UASG in […]

Data for the test cases for developers for evaluating systems for Universal Acceptance-readiness explained in UASG 004.

This report is a follow up to UASG030 and tests the EAI readiness of seven additional software packages: Mozilla Thunderbird Beta, Xgenplus and Spamjadoo, Sendmail 8.17 alpha, Halon, Dovecot, Mailchannels, […]

This report is a follow up to UASG030 and tests the EAI readiness of seven additional software packages: Mozilla Thunderbird Beta, Xgenplus and Spamjadoo, Sendmail 8.17 alpha, Halon, Dovecot, Mailchannels, […]

Testing of UA readiness in Content Management Systems, namely WordPress and its associated plugins. Report determines how well the software complies with the UA readiness of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), […]

Goal: evaluate strategies to discover and improve UA-associated code in open source software.

Provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding UA support in programming languages and frameworks, and support for EAI in email tools and services.

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Considerations for email system administrators to provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses.

Tests the different components of the email technology stack, the Mail User Agent (MUA), Mail Submission Agent (MSA), Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), and Mail Service Provider […]

Detailed test results of the programming languages and libraries evaluated

This document describes the results of verifying the UA readiness of C, C#, Go, Java, Javascript, Python3, Rust and frameworks, including the testing of internationalized email.

This report captures a summary of scope of UA, documents the current gaps in technology related to UA-readiness, and provides an update on the activities undertaken by the UASG in […]

A follow up to testing done in 2018 and 2019 (UASG025), this document evaluates the acceptance rates of internationalized email addresses by websites in different countries.

Technical guide that provides a framework for scoping UA conformance work on software applications, focusing on the major components of an application to help developers more easily problem solve.

Technical guide that provides a framework for scoping UA conformance work on software applications, focusing on the major components of an application to help developers more easily problem solve.

ICANN UA Case Study.

ICANN UA Case Study.

ICANN UA Case Study.

ICANN UA Case Study.

ICANN UA Case Study.

ICANN UA Case Study.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

An overview of the baseline concepts of Universal Acceptance and an introduction to advanced topics such as right-to-left scripts, the Bidi algorithm and Normalization.

Test Cases for UASG021.

Evaluation Template for UASG021.

This document follows UASG021A and describes the proof-of-concept phase of the EAI Evaluation project. It provides clarifications and improvements to the test criteria developed in the first phase of the […]

PPT presentation of “Global Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of E-mail Addresses in 2019”

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Evaluate UA compliance of the top 1K websites in the world by sampling the practices & different development approaches to the e-mail field in forms on the Web and testing […]

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Universal Acceptance at a glance, why it matters and how to take action.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Requests for comments related to Internationalized Domain Names, Internationalized Email and other issues relevant to Universal Acceptance.

Provides a framework for the evaluation of popular programming packages and libraries and their usefulness in aiding Universal Acceptance good practice.

Modern operating systems have a variety of command line tools used in system management and program development. Many of these tools operate on Domain Names and a few on e-mail […]

Lecture on best practices for Email Address Internationalization, aimed at a technical audience. PPT format.

Lecture on best practices for Email Address Internationalization, aimed at a technical audience. PDF format.

Lecture on best practices for Universal Acceptance, aimed at a technical audience. PPT format.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Definitions of key terms and recommended next steps for becoming UA-ready.

Results of an informal survey of mail servers across domains registered in hundreds of top-level domains (TLDs) to see whether they have mail servers that accept EAI mail.

This document describes the Discovery and Analysis phase of the EAI Evaluation project. It provides project background, software selection criteria, a set of candidate software components for analysis, and a […]

An introduction to EAI, and items for email software developers and email service providers to consider.

Suggested text that people can use to reach out to a website when their domain name doesn’t resolve.

A technical overview of EAI.

A technical overview of EAI.

An introduction to linkification, its challenges and good practice recommendations.

Report on major browsers compliance with UASG guidance.

Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of a Variety of Email Addresses.

Provides a blueprint for CIO’s to use in addressing Universal Acceptance issues. Internet Industry specific tables are used.

Suggested text to reach out to webmasters whose websites are not UA-Ready.

Includes details on Good Practice clauses for Universal Acceptance as well as IPv6 and DNSSEC.

A list of questions and answers relating to Universal Acceptance.

The purpose of this document is to provide a model for establishment and operation of a local UA initiative.