Re: [Gen-art] [Last-Call] [art] Artart last call review of draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai-12

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2022-08-27 03:48, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Friday, August 26, 2022 14:32 +0900 "Martin J. Dürst"
> <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> If it comes to court orders, then please note that courts and
>> lawyers and the like are perfectly able to deal with issues
>> with foreign scripts. (It may take some more time (when it
>> comes to courts) and money (when it comes to lawyers).)
>>
>> It's always possible to pay somebody for
>> translation/transcription. Recently, software such as Google
>> translate may work extremely well in most cases. It certainly
>> did very recently when I tried for my own Japanese address.
>> Also, if courts or lawyers need to contact somebody by EAI
>> email address, they may set up EAI-capable software or ask
>> somebody to do that for them or send the necessary messages
>> for them. But most probably, they will chose to use snail
>> mail, because that's a mode of communication that's more
>> established in legal circles.
> 
> Martin,
> 
> (1) For free text, Yes.

For free text and addresses, that is.

> (2) However, remember that the issue here is email addresses and
> that neither the labels of the domain part nor the local part
> are required to be "words" or well-known personal name in some
> language.  Registries and email providers may make some
> restrictions in those areas, but are not required to do so.
> Made-up strings or phrases are unlike to translate accurately
> whether by people are automated means.  They may transliterate
> but, as you certainly know, there are many languages for which
> there are multiple transliteration systems.  Even for those for
> which there are ISO-standard transliteration systems, other
> systems may also be in use.

Agreed. That's why I mentioned EAI email addresses separately above. 
Even if somebody translates an EAI address somehow, that doesn't mean 
the intended recipient is reachable at the translated address. But what 
you can do is to set up an EAI-capable email system, or to ask somebody 
with such a system to forward your communications.


Regards,   Martin.