General Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
UASG 011 A list of questions and answers relating to Universal Acceptance.
Technical Documentation
Use Cases for UA Readiness Evaluation
UASG 004 Use cases for developers for evaluating systems for Universal Acceptance-readiness.
Quick Guide to Tender and Contractual Documents
UASG 009 Includes details on Good Practice clauses for Universal Acceptance as well as IPv6 and DNSSEC.
Quick Guide to Linkification
UASG 010 An introduction to linkification, its challenges and good practice recommendations.
(EAI): A Technical Overview
UASG 012 Email Address Internationalization (EAI): A Technical Overview.
Quick Guide to Email Address Internationalization (EAI)
UASG 014 An introduction to EAI (Email Address Internationalization), and items for email software developers and email service providers to consider.
Universal Acceptance Compliance of Programming Language Libraries and Frameworks – 2019
UASG 018 Reviewing programming languages and frameworks for compliance with universal acceptance good practice.
Universal Acceptance Compliance of Programming Language Libraries and Frameworks – 2020
UASG 018A 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.
English | Detailed test results of the programming languages and libraries evaluated | Test Data Sets | Analysis of the report findings – Presentation
Email Address Internationalization: A Technical Perspective
UASG 019B 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.
UA Readiness of Command Line Networking Tools
UASG 024 Modern operating systems have a variety of command line tools used in system management and program development.
Global Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of E-mail Addresses in 2019
UASG 025 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 them in practice.
Universal Acceptance Readiness Framework
UASG 026 UA is about enabling the use of identifier technologies that were not present at the beginning of the Internet deployment.
Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020
UASG 027 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.
Considerations for Naming Internationalized Email Mailboxes
UASG 028 The document is intended for email systems administrators to help them provision mailboxes, configure, and manage systems compatible with internationalized email addresses. It outlines the considerations for naming internationalized mailboxes and helps administrators make good choices when setting their mailbox names policy.
Evaluation of EAI Support in Email Software and Services Report
UASG 030 The report studies the support Email Addresses Internationalization (EAI) of the different email systems and tools. It test 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 (MSP). Different groups of tests were performed on different software packages beside additional tests for Webmail services.
