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30 Nov 2012
According to a
filing
with the SEC, the Department of Commerce renewed the .COM agreement for six more years.
The renewal was held up until the last minute (the old agreement expires today) due
to antitrust concerns, specifcally about pricing. The main change in the new agreement is
that Verisign is no longer allowed to increase the price above the existing $7.85, except
under some unlikely conditions such as an extremely expensive security problem, or
Verisign persuades the government that the .COM domain is no longer dominant.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/vrsn2012.html
29 Nov 2012
In the
previous installment we looked at
the software changes needed for mail servers to handle internationalized
mail, generally abbreviated as EAI.
When a message arrives, whether ASCII or EAI,
mail servers generally drop it into a mailbox and let the user
pick it up.
The usual ways for mail programs to pick up mail are POP3 and IMAP4.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/i18neai2.html
18 Nov 2012
About a year ago I
blogged
about
the IETF's
developing internationalized e-mail standards,
generally abbreviated as EAI.
At the IETF meeting a couple of weeks ago, EAI finally wrapped up its work,
finishing a few nitpicky but important documents describing the ways that
POP and IMAP servers handle mail with non-ASCII addresses and mailboxes.
Now that we have the specs, what happens next?
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/i18neai.html
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