September 2015 - UA-discuss

UA Coordination Meeting
by Don Hollander Sept. 17, 2015

Sept. 17, 2015

As announced earlier this month, the attached is the initial agenda for the UA Coordination Meeting set to occur in Horsham, PA USA starting at 11:00 AM Eastern Time in the USA. For those who want to connect, the Adobe Connect Room details are at the top of the Agenda. https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance This Agenda is subject to change and the times are approximate. Kind regards. Don

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FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs
by Ram Mohan Sept. 17, 2015

Sept. 17, 2015

ICANN News Alert News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en ------------------------------ ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs 14 September 2015 ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444> announced the availability of a new report: *An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance*. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. The report, sponsored by ICANN, is available here <http://www.potaroo.net/reports/Universal-Acceptance/UA-Report.pdf> [PDF, 1.63 MB]. APNIC Labs, the research arm of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) <https://www.apnic.net/>, conducted the tests and analysis, which included measuring overall and per-country acceptance of certain generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by end-users and the domain name system (DNS) as a whole. The tests show that there were no underlying infrastructure obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs. "These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's Chief Technology Officer, David Conrad. "However, there will need to be changes to systems and software to fully leverage the global opportunities these new TLDs enable." Conrad went on to note that the results of the APNIC Labs tests identified occasional problems with Adobe's Flash product working in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox when accessing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) TLDs. UASG Chair Ram Mohan said "The problems identified in the report resulted in a larger than expected number of IDN TLDs being unresolvable, clearly an issue for Universal Acceptance. The UASG is reaching out to Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe to further investigate and mitigate this issue identified in the report, and ensure problems are resolved for all TLDs." Mohan also strongly encouraged members of the Internet community to join the UASG and facilitate the proliferation of Universal Acceptance for all TLDs. To learn more about the Universal Acceptance visit the UASG Wiki <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444> or ICANN's UA <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en#in…> webpage. Interested parties are also invited to join the discuss list: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss. ICANN News Alert | communications(a)icann.org | ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Email Marketing by [image: iContact - Try It Free!] <http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> *Manage Your Subscription * <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=20666176&l=6333&s=RSGT&m=97…>

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Re: [UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UMASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs
by Ram Mohan Sept. 16, 2015

Sept. 16, 2015

Mark & Jothan, Thank you for the comments. Let me see if I can get the author of the study to dial into our meeting for some time tomorrow or Friday, so we can address the issues directly, and perhaps learn more as well. -Ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ram Mohan o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701 Skype: gliderpilot30 *From:* Jothan Frakes [mailto:jothan@jothan.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:35 AM *To:* Mark Svancarek <marksv(a)microsoft.com> *Cc:* rmohan@afilias. info <rmohan(a)afilias.info>; UA-discuss(a)icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs I appreciate the report, and hope it will ultimately drive more awareness and resourcing that are sorely needed. I am not speaking in an official capacity for Mozilla, but based upon my unique perspective related to their handling of IDN, I have some concerns on IDN methodology, specifically as it relates to the results with Mozilla Firefox and Flash behavior - there are versions that behave differently in combination. As a general comment, there are some deliberate and well-vetted security protections and behavior that is based upon installed languages of the user, and these factors may certainly have skewed the fail level reported. On Sep 15, 2015 10:32 AM, "Mark Svancarek" <marksv(a)microsoft.com> wrote: I have some methodology concerns regarding IE (very under-represented, version not listed, Adobe plug-in version not listed) but otherwise this seems informative. *From:* ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Ram Mohan *Sent:* Tuesday, September 15, 2015 7:38 AM *To:* UA-discuss(a)icann.org *Subject:* [UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en ------------------------------ ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs 14 September 2015 ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444> announced the availability of a new report: *An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance*. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. The report, sponsored by ICANN, is available here <http://www.potaroo.net/reports/Universal-Acceptance/UA-Report.pdf> [PDF, 1.63 MB]. APNIC Labs, the research arm of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) <https://www.apnic.net/>, conducted the tests and analysis, which included measuring overall and per-country acceptance of certain generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by end-users and the domain name system (DNS) as a whole. The tests show that there were no underlying infrastructure obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs. "These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's Chief Technology Officer, David Conrad. "However, there will need to be changes to systems and software to fully leverage the global opportunities these new TLDs enable." Conrad went on to note that the results of the APNIC Labs tests identified occasional problems with Adobe's Flash product working in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox when accessing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) TLDs. UASG Chair Ram Mohan said "The problems identified in the report resulted in a larger than expected number of IDN TLDs being unresolvable, clearly an issue for Universal Acceptance. The UASG is reaching out to Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe to further investigate and mitigate this issue identified in the report, and ensure problems are resolved for all TLDs." Mohan also strongly encouraged members of the Internet community to join the UASG and facilitate the proliferation of Universal Acceptance for all TLDs. To learn more about the Universal Acceptance visit the UASG Wiki <https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444> or ICANN's UA <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en#in…> webpage. Interested parties are also invited to join the discuss list: https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss. ICANN News Alert | communications(a)icann.org | ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Email Marketing by [image: iContact - Try It Free!] <http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> *Manage Your Subscription * <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=20666176&l=6333&s=RSGT&m=97…>

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UASG Budget approved, Mark Svancarek becomes M&M area lead, F2F meeting in Philadelphia, things are moving!
by Ram Mohan Sept. 14, 2015

Sept. 14, 2015

Team, Over the past few months, one of the big tasks that I worked on with the UA Coordination team was the inaugural UASG budget. I’m pleased to inform you that our request for approximately $775,000 for the July 2015-June 2016 has been approved. In summary: Documentation workstream $95,000 Technical workstream $100,000 Awareness workstream $53,500 EAI workstream $55,000 Measurement & Monitoring workstream $226,250 UASG Meetings & Administration $245,000 *Total* *$774,750* *Mark Svancarek* has agreed to take on the lead role for the Measurements and Monitoring work stream. Mark has worked at Microsoft since 1993 and has held various roles in hardware, software and online services throughout the company. He holds eight U.S. patents. He is presently a Principal Program Manager for corporate IPv6 and Universal Acceptance Engineering efforts, and focuses on aspects which impact customer and partner satisfaction. The UASG Coordination group, which consists of leads for the workstreams above, will meet face to face at Afilias’ offices in Philadelphia on Sep 17 and 18 to progress work and retain momentum. We will publish detailed notes, and specifics on the projects at the meeting. We are working on a conference bridge and Adobe for next week’s meeting – details from *Don Hollander*. As always, I’m open to feedback and input. Regards, Ram Chair Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701 Skype: gliderpilot30

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AUTO: Ahmed Bakhat Masood is out of the office. (returning 09/14/2015)
by Ahmed Bakhat Masood Sept. 11, 2015

Sept. 11, 2015

I am out of the office until 09/14/2015. I will not be able to respond to your mail. For urgent queries, please contact Mr. Shageel Ahmed Dy Director (ICT) at shargeel(a)pta.gov.pk or Mr. Anwar Zeb IT Officer at anwar(a)pta.gov.pk Note: This is an automated response to your message "UA-discuss Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1" sent on 09/11/2015 5:00:03 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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