Tobias,

According to RFC 2606, example.com/net/org are reserved for examples.  We need 
an placeholder value in the protocol itself.  I view the use of the RFC 2606 
domains in the protocol itself as an issue and not a solution.  The 
empty.as112.arpa domain is meant to be blackholed by protocol, which meets one 
of the requirements.  The use of the placeholder value will only be needed 
until all clients and servers support EAI.  It’s a corner case, but it needs to 
be defined to address use cases like the handling of the required RFC 5733 
email element when the other side of the connection doesn’t support EAI and all 
that exists is an EAI address.

Thanks,

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JG

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From: Tobias Sattler <satt...@united-domains.de>
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 3:21 AM
To: James Gould <jgo...@verisign.com>
Cc: "regext@ietf.org" <regext@ietf.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai Predefined 
Placeholder Email Value

Hi Jim,

I am not into all details, but why not using an email adress, such as 
e...@example.com?

My understanding of RFC2606 is, that you can use example.com/org/net for that 
purpose, too, as they are reserved TLDs.

empty.as112.arpa has no MX record, too, therefore, I don‘t get the advantage of 
it.

Best,
Tobias


Am 22.07.2021 um 18:06 schrieb Gould, James 
<jgould=40verisign....@dmarc.ietf.org>:

There is one TBD item that exists in section 5.3.2 of draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai 
related the “predefined placeholder email” that is used by the EAI supporting 
server and EAI supporting client where the opposite party doesn't support EAI.  
In both cases a valid email value needs to be provided to a non-EAI supporting 
client or server to satisfy a required email property when all that is 
available is an EAI value.  To satisfy this requirement, a predefined 
placeholder email needs to be selected that meets the requirements:



1.      A syntactically valid email address to pass client or server validation 
logic.

2.      A non-EAI email address since the client or server doesn’t support EAI 
email addresses.

3.      A single value that can indicate the lack of EAI support to the client 
or server.

4.      An email address that is blackholed and never delivered.

5.      Use of the email address will not cause operational issues.



RFC 7535 defines a blackholed domain name with EMPTY.AS112.ARPA, which can be 
leveraged for the EAI predefined placeholder email.  The proposal is to define 
the “predefined placeholder email” value as 
e...@empty.as112.arpa<mailto:e...@empty.as112.arpa>.  This value looks to meet 
the requirements.  We are looking for feedback from the working group as well 
as experts outside of the working group to help determine whether the value 
does meet the requirements and whether there are additional requirements that 
need to be considered.  Once the predefined placeholder email is agreed to, the 
draft will be updated to define the predefined placeholder email value and use 
that value to replace the existing TBD values in section 5.3.2 of the draft.



Thanks,

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JG

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