Hi,
If weâre going to stand firm on the current working group consensus,
then I believe the question to be answered is why EPP is special and
shouldnât be required to align with accepted practice?
What's accepted practice?
We have phone numbers, postal addresses and email addresses in whois. All
are known to be unreliable, only mostly work AIUI, and that's accepted.
Phone numbers: A lot of people just don't accept phone calls from unknown
numbers. If you get a registrant's phone number from a registrar and try
to call it, there's no rule forcing the registrant to pick up the phone.
Postal addresses: You can be forced to accept a letter by the postman, but
the address in whois is constrained in ways that don't match e.g. rural
Indian addresses well. Letters addressed with A-Z only mostly arrive.
Email: Perhaps the least reliable of the three. A registrant can reject
mail from you without violating any rule, and many sites reject 99% of
incoming email. You run a nonzero risk of being part of those 99% if you
don't have a prior relationship with the registrant.
EAI fits neatly into this. 70-80% of people can send email to unicode
addresses, the rest not, so it's kind of unreliable. There's an easy
workaround, just open your gmail/o365 address in a browser and send the
mail from there. There's no guarantee that you can send email to a unicode
address from the site/software _of_your_choice_ but it mostly works since
the dominant sites support it.
In my ears EAI sounds really quite similar to accepted practice: It mostly
works and if it doesn't, the registrant has broken no rule.
Arnt
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