Hi!

> On 23 Nov 2020, at 17:00, Dmitry Belyavsky <beld...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Scott,
> 

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> 
> This may be the path of least resistance. I'm still trying to think through 
> hat would happen if a registry returns an internationalized email address to 
> a registrar that doesn't expect one. This could happen after a domain 
> transfer, for example. Is this a problem? If not, maybe we could just get by 
> without any other protocol changes or extensions.
> 
> From my point of view, if the registry has implemented EAI support, all the 
> registrars will have to do it. They should deal with the clients with such 
> emails _somehow_. 
> E.g., they hardly can reject the transfer relying on this reason.

There are cases when registry cannot enforce registrars to implement some 
features. But I see no problem in the registry response with EAI. EPP works 
with UTF-8
encoding so EAI should not cause the EPP interface crash. Such email can cause 
strange symbols in the web interface but as for me it should not bring serious 
problems.

>  
> 
> > For example, what would an "old" client do that doesn't understand a
> > potential EAI extension? Would they be deprived of email addresses
> > completely, and receive non-sensical placeholders which they'd unwittingly
> > hand over to their email system (even if that email system would perfectly
> > understand EAIs?). Does sound like a failed opportunity to me!
> 
> See question above.
> 
> Scott
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