October 2015 - UA-discuss - lists.iana.org

Report on Universal Acceptance at ICANN54
by Don Hollander Oct. 21, 2015

Oct. 21, 2015

Dear all… Please find attached a brief report on what’s happened with regard to Universal Acceptance at ICANN54. Feel free to use this in your own respective meeting reports that you may be preparing. I have started preparing a more fulsome report but don’t realistically expect to have it completed before the end of the month. I expect to have the slides available on the UA Wiki sometime early November. If you would like copies of specific presentations before then, please let me know. We have: 1) The introductory slide deck Christian used on Sunday 2) The presentation for Ashwin Ragan on ICANN IT’s progress 3) The presentation provided by Avria on Sunday 4) The presentation deck used by Dennis on Sunday 5) The presentation deck used by Edmon on Monday - which was basically the same as that used by Christian on Sunday with a few more slides about achievements on Sunday. 6) The slides used by Rinalia on Monday. Many thanks for all those who participated during the Sunday workshop. And thanks, also, to those who accepted assignments. There is much work ahead, but I think we’re well poised. With kind regards and safe travels for those not at home… Don

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M3AAWG membership
by Lars Steffen Oct. 19, 2015

Oct. 19, 2015

Hi all, I checked regarding M3AAWG that ICANN and eco are already Supporting Members. Just lo let you know. Regards, Lars

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When will the workshop start tomorrow?
by Mark Svancarek Oct. 18, 2015

Oct. 18, 2015

Sorry for the dumb question, I can't seem to find what we decided....

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Outreach Letter to Website Administrators...
by Don Hollander Oct. 18, 2015

Oct. 18, 2015

Please find below a link to a Google Docs page with text to use when reaching out to Website Administrators to let them know that their site doesn’t accept perfectly valid e-mail addresses for registration. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Efsao9I6ko4_ohQAxrW_xogma2il6jVrsphA9DH… Many, many thanks to the good folks at Donuts who have allowed the use of their text – in English and Russian. For those able, you’ll see that there’s space allocated for other languages. Feel free to fill these in if you feel competent. (If your preferred language is not included, just add it.) The text is short, simple, and to the point. IF you have suggestions for changing the English (or the Russian) please let us know. I would like to get this available for wider distribution by the 19th of October – 1 Week from today, and just after the UASG Sunday Workshop. With kind regards and best wishes for safe travels (for those travelling)… Don

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Universal Acceptance - Briefing Paper to ICANN 54
by Don Hollander Oct. 17, 2015

Oct. 17, 2015

Dear all: Attached is the final UA Briefing paper about to be distributed to the ICANN constituencies that we met with in Argentina. Rather than take up time during their respective constituency meetings to provide a report back, we’ll use this written briefing to provide an update. We’re always, of course, happy to engaged answer questions, but thought that this might be a more efficient approach. Don

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Latest UA Program For Dublin
by Don Hollander Oct. 17, 2015

Oct. 17, 2015

Please find the latest schedule for UA topics in Dublin. The most significant change is the Ram Mohan will not be attending the Dublin meeting in person due to family illness. Christian Dawson, Rich Merdinger and Edmon Chung, the three vice-chair’s of the UASG, will be more involved as a result. We’ve confirmed some additional active participants and corrected some spelling errors. Don

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Regarding bug 4074446
by Mark Svancarek Oct. 15, 2015

Oct. 15, 2015

Hi Jeromie, I have filed bug 4074446 at www.bugbase.adobe.com<http://www.bugbase.adobe.com> regarding the Flash plug-in issues detected by APNIC and reported at http://www.potaroo.net/reports/Universal-Acceptance/UA-Report.pdf. It should really be multiple bugs (multiple browsers, multiple OS platforms) but I'll let you determine what/how many there should be. Please keep us informed if you have to create new bugs. Thank you for your consideration. Mark Svancarek Microsoft Corporation - Customer and Partner Experience Engineering Universal Acceptance Steering Group - Measurement and Monitoring

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Re: [UA-discuss] Outreach Letter to Website Administrators...
by Richard Merdinger Oct. 14, 2015

Oct. 14, 2015

I like the idea very much Lars… —Rich Richard Merdinger VP, Domains - GoDaddy e: rmerdinger(a)godaddy.com m: +1.319.530.4100 s: Richard.Merdinger From: <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org>> on behalf of Lars Steffen Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 1:59 AM To: "'Hannigan, Martin'", Don Hollander, "ua-discuss(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org>" Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Outreach Letter to Website Administrators... When I sent out letters to administrators so far, in most cases I added short paragraphs about ICANN and my organization. From my experience, there are many people who know ICANN as a name, but are not always aware what it is about. If you agree, I can add those paragraphs to the document. Best regards, Lars Von: ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] Im Auftrag von Hannigan, Martin Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2015 03:31 An: Don Hollander <don.hollander(a)icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>>; UA-discuss(a)icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Betreff: Re: [UA-discuss] Outreach Letter to Website Administrators... Don, I made a few suggestions. Being assertive is in our interest overall and instills confidence in the topic IMHO. I wonder if we should also try and template a vendor > customer letter? I expect that we'll be in a position (as will others) to use our relationships to support directly and being on the same page seems important for this. Best, -M< ________________________________ From: Don Hollander <don.hollander(a)icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 2:16 AM To: UA-discuss(a)icann.org<mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Outreach Letter to Website Administrators... Please find below a link to a Google Docs page with text to use when reaching out to Website Administrators to let them know that their site doesn’t accept perfectly valid e-mail addresses for registration. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Efsao9I6ko4_ohQAxrW_xogma2il6jVrsphA9DH… Many, many thanks to the good folks at Donuts who have allowed the use of their text – in English and Russian. For those able, you’ll see that there’s space allocated for other languages. Feel free to fill these in if you feel competent. (If your preferred language is not included, just add it.) The text is short, simple, and to the point. IF you have suggestions for changing the English (or the Russian) please let us know. I would like to get this available for wider distribution by the 19th of October – 1 Week from today, and just after the UASG Sunday Workshop. With kind regards and best wishes for safe travels (for those travelling)… Don

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Latest Draft of UA Best Practices document
by Mark Svancarek Oct. 12, 2015

Oct. 12, 2015

I'm still not finished for Dublin, but there are sufficient edits to this draft to make it worth asking you review and provide feedback. Feel free to edit and comment directly into the doc. Thanks. http://1drv.ms/1G0AB1g

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Universal Acceptance Program for Dublin ... and other news
by Don Hollander Oct. 11, 2015

Oct. 11, 2015

Please find attached the Universal Acceptance Program for Dublin. You’ll see the rooms as well as the remote participation link for the Sunday. (Monday’s is still be set up) The schedule and structure are set, some of the participants may change. Please note that the Sunday Workshop is intended as a workshop and will have few standard presentations. (Ashwin and Avri are the noted exceptions) I am particularly keen to build a broad discussion on what’s happening around the world on the session that starts at 9:30, so I would welcome active participation in this space. Please also note that Lunch will be provided on Sunday. IF you have any questions or comments, please do let me know. Many thanks for those who have volunteered to be active participants. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you in just over a week’s time. Don Hollander PS: There are other things happening within the UASG of note: Brent London is expanding his circle of EAI participants. If you’re involved in an EAI project and aren’t part of Brent’s Circle of Friends, then please get in touch with him directly. Mark Svancarek has release version 3 of his Introduction to UA. http://1drv.ms/1G0AB1g We’ve got a paper on Use Cases out for comment. Once we get agreement on this, we’ll secure some relevant domain names. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i2pI3byK5XXvFVeelWJGHsrjeNU4QLe7q_wXsXW… I’m working on learning the RFP process using a Pilot Website evaluation project as my guinea pig. We’ve developed a note to the GAC to introduce them to the concept We’re just about (I hope) finished with a UA Fact Sheet that we’ll use at the IGF next month We’ve started talking about “Linkification" and Mark Svancarek has started some documentation around this. We’ll spend some time on this at the Sunday workshop in Dublin. And we know that several very large organisations outside of the ICANN community have started looking at UA issues.

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