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alpha
1st May 2009, 12:33 AM
link (http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/090406.html)

On 31 March 2009, an RFC which specifies a standard for E-mail Address Internationalization (EAI) and was co-authored by two (2) engineers of JPRS was published. This means that EAI is prepared for the field tests toward the actual utilization.

An e-mail address is described in the form of "user-name@domain-name". In terms of standardization of "domain name" which is on the right part to @, a standard is already defined as Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). EAI is the technology which internationalizes the whole e-mail address including the left part to @, i.e., "local part"; also, it is the technology whereby non-ASCII characters of various languages including Japanese can be used in any part of an e-mail address.
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seamo
1st May 2009, 12:41 AM
Should finally crack the Japanese IDN market for us when usage becomes mainstream...logical step forward for end user if IDN@IDN is possible, IDN.com is as well.

Out of interest, my IDN.jp have seen a slight spike in local traffic this month.

domainguru
1st May 2009, 03:32 AM
e-mail is way behind DNS. Don't expect reliable global IDN for a decade.

thegenius1
1st May 2009, 11:14 AM
Good news that some sort of progress is being made.