| Developers: | National Internet Domain Coordination Center (CC) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | 2020/05/27 |
| Last Release Date: | 2022/06/29 |
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2023: Sites popular with Russians have been checked for work with Cyrillic e-mail addresses
The results of a study of support for Cyrillic email addresses by the most popular information resources in Russia have been published. This was announced on December 11, 2023
The study was carried out by the Coordination Center of Domains.RU/.RF within the framework of the Поддерживаю.РФ project and is aimed at studying the readiness of popular sites for correct work with various types of Cyrillic e-mail addresses: containing the characters of the Cyrillic Unicode alphabet in the local part of the address (before the @ sign) and/or Cyrillic domain names of the Russian national domain zone (after the @ sign).
In 2023, 300 of the most visited Internet population countries sites by Russian users (all aged 12 + years) were checked through the desktop and mobile devices. The list of resources for the study was compiled on the basis of data from the company's Cross Web project. Mediascope
During the study, 91 resources were selected that had at the time of verification one or more working forms of interaction with users that allow you to enter email addresses (registration form, feedback form, news subscription form, etc.). The selected resources were checked for the possibility of entering Cyrillic e-mail addresses in interaction forms without errors (acceptance) and subsequent delivery of letters to their mailboxes (confirmation). According to the results of the study, the level of acceptance by resources of fully or partially Cyrillic e-mail addresses, demonstrating the correctness of the website input forms, was:
- 44% of resources successfully accept e-mail addresses with Latin characters in the local part of the address and a Cyrillic domain name (ascii @ unicode);
- 34% of resources successfully accept e-mail addresses with a Cyrillic local part and a domain name in Latin (unicode @ ascii.ascii);
- 29% of resources successfully accept fully Cyrillic e-mail addresses (Unicode @ Unicode).
The level of confirmation of fully or partially Cyrillic e-mail addresses, demonstrating the correctness of the postal services of the sites being checked, was:
- more than a third or 37% of resources successfully send letters to e-mail addresses with Latin characters in the local part and a Cyrillic domain name (ascii @ unicode);
- 3% of resources successfully send letters to email addresses with a Cyrillic local part and a domain name in Latin (Unicode @ ascii.ascii);
- another 3% of resources ensure correct work with all types of Cyrillic e-mail addresses: they successfully accept and successfully send confirmations to such addresses, including fully Cyrillic postal addresses (like unicode @ unicode unicode).
 | We conducted a study to assess the current capabilities of Internet users to interact with popular sites using Cyrillic e-mail addresses. This is important for those users who already have Cyrillic postal addresses and those who plan to create them after registering the Cyrillic domain name, primarily in the Russian national domain zone. Let me remind you that users can register Cyrillic domain names of the second level in such Russian zones as .RF,.DETI,.MOSKVA,.RUS and.SU. Therefore, when developing sites, it is important not to forget and ensure correct work with all available types of e-mail addresses, including fully or partially Cyrillic, - commented the project manager Поддерживаю.РФ Maria Kolesnikova. |  |
The study notes that the main difficulty in supporting Cyrillic e-mail addresses by sites is to correctly configure work with Cyrillic characters in the local part of the address in accordance with the EAI standard (RFC 6530-6533), and that not all sites implement correct work with Cyrillic domain names, despite the possibility of using the Punycode conversion algorithm (RFC 3492).
2022: Launch of knowledge base on working with Cyrillic domain names and email addresses
The Поддерживаю.РФ project has launched a unified knowledge base on the implementation of universal adoption of internationalized domain names and email addresses - вики.поддерживаю.рф. This was announced on June 29, 2022 by the Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet (CC).
The wiki resource is intended for software developers, system administrators and all interested IT specialists. The knowledge base contains practical recommendations and training materials on the development and configuration of software for full support of Russian Cyrillic domains, including .RF, .SU,.DETI,.MOSKVA, .RUS, and mail addresses using them.
For convenience, the materials are presented in two main sections - for system administrators and software developers.
For system administrators, step-by-step instructions and trainings are available for installing and configuring mail services with support for internationalized e-mail addresses (EAI) in Russian and other national languages, in particular for FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems. In addition, recommendations have been published for developing EAI policies for the mail service when creating internationalized mailboxes, as well as the aliases and display names used for them.
For software developers, one place contains technical recommendations, available ready-made software solutions (including popular libraries and frameworks for C, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python3, Rust), testing tools and methods for implementing EAI addresses and IDN domains in the software being developed. The recommendations describe the principles of processing and storing Russian-language domain names and their corresponding e-mail addresses, as well as their validation, taking into account the rules of Russian domain zones.
The knowledge base website in the public domain has recordings of seminars and trainings on the implementation of IDN and EAI technology support for Python and Java developers and system administrators.
All technical documentation and training materials are developed on the basis of the latest Internet standards and best industry practices by experts of the Поддерживаю.РФ project, Russian and international working groups on universal adoption. Knowledge base materials will be supplemented.
{{quote "The main goal of our project is to assist technical specialists with the early implementation of support for Cyrillic Internet identifiers. We collect and share in a convenient and simple form the most relevant and useful knowledge on how to currently ensure work with Russian-language domains and postal addresses. For example, how to implement support for industry standards in the software being developed, which software products to choose with already built-in IDN and EAI support, or how to correctly configure the technical solutions used. Our experience suggests that almost any application, corporate system or site can be configured to work correctly with the Cyrillic alphabet, - said Поддерживаю.РФ project manager Maria Kolesnikova. }}
2021: Project implementation with Reg.ru
At the end of March 2021, hosting provider Reg.ru announced the launch of a postal system that supports fully Cyrillic email addresses. The company is implementing this initiative in conjunction with the Поддерживаю.РФ project.
At the first stage, Reg.ru offered customers two independent servers, each of which hosts an email service in the ёпочта.рф and накириллице.рф domains, consisting of an Exim-based mail server, a Courier-IMAP-based mail delivery agent, and an OpenDMARC spam filtering system for Exim.
Popular desktop or mobile mail clients that support Unicode addresses, including Microsoft Outlook Apple iOS Mail, can be used as a mail client for the server. In addition, each hardware platform hosts a Roundcube-based webmail server that allows you to work with Cyrillic mailboxes through a browser.
| | The launch of the test stand along with Поддерживаю.РФ is an important step in the development of Cyrillic email, "comments Svetlana Lienko, executive director of the hosting provider and domain registrar of the Reg.ru. - Each user should be able to use their native language and, in particular, Cyrillic e-mail for their projects on the network. We will support the project in the information and educational part and it is likely that in the future it will be possible to create Cyrillic mail on virtual hosting of the Reg.ru. | |
The company added that its initiative is focused primarily on software developers and online services that implement Universal Acceptance principles in their products and need existing non-Latin mail addresses for testing them.[1]
2020
Opening your own IDN Bug Bounty program
On August 31, 2020, it became known that the Поддерживаю.РФ project for the development of the infrastructure of internationalized domain names and mail addresses opened its own IDN Bug Bounty program, focused on searching for inconsistencies in the principles of Universal Acceptance in Russian services and software.
As explained, every month from September to November 2020, the program participant who added the most information about such inconsistencies to the project database will receive up to 45,000 rubles as a reward.
To participate in the Bug Bounty program, you must register on the поддерживаю.рф website and take the online training course "Introduction to Universal Adoption." After that, participants are able to enter information into the project database about inconsistencies they have found in services and software - for example, the inability to enter or incorrectly process IDN (domain names in national languages) and EAI (internationalized e-mail addresses).
According to the project manager Поддерживаю.РФ Maria Kolesnikova, despite the fact that Russia as of August 2020 ranks second in the world in terms of support for e-mail addresses in the national language, the share of software and services that fully support Cyrillic Internet identifiers is still small.
| | For example, a software check conducted by us in early 2020 showed that the technical ability to support IDN domains and EAI addresses is not implemented in all even the most popular software. And a study of the possibility of using Cyrillic mail on Russian websites, published in June 2020, made it possible to find out that e-mail addresses made up entirely of symbols of the national alphabet can be accepted by only 19% of Runet sites, which is certainly not enough. | |
The project Поддерживаю.РФ created by the Coordination Center of Domains.RU/.RF in May 2020 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Russian top-level domain.RF. It is designed to help software developers implement support for IDN domain names and EAI mail addresses in their products, and for system administrators to select and configure software that has such functionality. The project website contains Russian-language documentation on working with internationalized domain names and mail addresses, including standards and best practices for their processing in software, as well as a constantly updated catalog of software products indicating their current support status for IDN and EAI protocols.
For August, 2020 information partners of the project: Internet portals D-Russia.ru, ComNews.ru, MSKIT.ru, Nag.ru, ICT-Online.ru, ICT2GO.ru, "Mobile Telecommunications", magazines "Vestnik Svyazi", "Pervaya milya", "Radiochastotny spektr", "BIT. Бизнес&Информационные technologies" and "System administrator".
The ability to test the product for correct support of domain names in the zone. RF
On July 31, 2020, it became known that Поддерживаю.РФ was inviting software developers.
The project of the Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF to support Cyrillic domains Поддерживаю.РФ goes to another level. Now each software or service developer can test their product for the correct support of domain names in the.RF zone and receive the corresponding certificate.
To do this, you need to take a free training course on introduction to universal adoption on the website, including working with IDN and EAI, and then test your product in accordance with the published methodology and provide information on the test results to the project organizers. Certified programs and services will also be published in the IDN and EAI-compatible solutions catalog of the project. If you need to make changes to the code and architecture of products, Поддерживаю.РФ technicians are ready to provide developers with the necessary advice.
The project Поддерживаю.РФ designed to help software developers implement full support for IDN domain names and EAI mail addresses in their products, and for system administrators to correctly select and configure software that has this ability. The project website contains Russian-language documentation on working with internationalized domain names and mail addresses, including standards and best practices for their processing in software, and also constantly updates the catalog of software products indicating the current situation with their support for IDN and EAI protocols.
In July 2020, the preparatory part of the project was completed, which included the development of technical recommendations for working with Cyrillic domains, as well as research on the most important software for supporting the Runet, the situation using the.RF domain in the Russian segment of the network and the current level of support by Russian Internet resources for Cyrillic email addresses.
Running Cyrillic Domain Support Program
On May 27, 2020, the company Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF announced the launch of a program for supporting Cyrillic domains (.RF (domain)). The project, called Поддерживаю.РФ, is aimed at solving one of the problems in working with non-Latin and, in particular, Cyrillic domain names - providing them with transparent support in software.
According to the company, despite the fact that non-Latin domain names (IDNs) have existed for more than 10 years, a significant part of the software uses domain conversion to ASCII through Punycode conversion and displays them in such a way that it scares unprepared users and worsens user experience. Internationalized postal addresses (EAIs), which are rarely used as of May 2020, are a separate problem, since the refusal to support them at any of the intermediate postal nodes leads to the non-delivery of the message.
Поддерживаю.РФ is designed to help software developers implement full support for IDN domain names and EAI mail addresses, primarily Cyrillic, in their products, and for system administrators to correctly select and configure software that has this ability. The project website contains Russian-language documentation on working with internationalized domain names and mail addresses, including standards and best practices for their processing in software, and also constantly updates the catalog of software products indicating the current situation with their support for IDN and EAI protocols.
The project also contains a bug tracker, where everyone can add a software product tested by him, which does not yet support non-Latin domain names, describe the problems associated with this, and also offer improvements. Contributors to Open Source products, if desired, can take over the introduction of fixes necessary to support IDN domains and EAI mail addresses into the code. In the near future, training courses on working with IDN domains and EAI addresses with the possibility of obtaining a certificate will also appear on the project website.
| | There is more content in national domain zones in national languages than in common top-level domains. And IDN domains, which include .RF, help preserve linguistic diversity on the network, support users who speak only their native language, and help more people become full-fledged Internet users. But for transparent and easy use, these domains must be supported by existing software, and the Поддерживаю.РФ project is a step towards solving this problem. told Andrei Vorobyov, Director of the Coordination Center for Domains.RU/.RF | |
The project manager Поддерживаю.РФ Maria Kolesnikova added that according to a UNESCO study for May 2020, 98% of web pages contain content in only 12 national languages, and efforts must be made to maintain the position and develop the presence of the Russian language online not only in the field of content, but also at the infrastructure level. And Internet this requires a full-fledged ecosystem of support for Cyrillic domain names and mail addresses, which needs to be worked on by the entire Russian-speaking Internet community.
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