January 2016 - UA-discuss - lists.iana.org

UASG Expected Standards of Behaviour
by Don Hollander Jan. 21, 2016

Jan. 21, 2016

The attached was produced based on similar documents in use within ICANN and the IETF. The UASG Coordination Group wants to get community feedback before adopting this. Can you please provide any comments (including endorsement) by the 23rd of January 2016. Thank you. Don

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IDN Report 2015
by Don Hollander Jan. 16, 2016

Jan. 16, 2016

For those of you who have not yet seen this, please find attached the EUrid UNESCO report on IDNs - probably the best longitudinal study of IDN’s on the Internet. Mark McFadden wrote the section on Universal Acceptance (pages 25 - 33) and worth a read. Emily Taylor, also a participant in the UASG, is the lead contributor to the report. http://eurid.eu/files/publ/IDNWorldReport2015_interactive.pdf

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Help Wanted - Open Source Review and Mitigation Work
by Don Hollander Jan. 16, 2016

Jan. 16, 2016

Dear all: Given the progress on documentation review that has been made during the UASG Coordination Group meeting in Washington DC, it is time to start getting ready to study how extensive the UA issue is in the most common programming and scripting languages in use on the Internet. Attached is a Help Wanted/RFP for some one(s) to perform this work. I would very much welcome your thoughts, particularly from those from a programming background, as to the appropriateness of this document. Would you please make comments by the 23rd of January? Thanks. Don

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FW: ICANN @ CSA Customer Summit 4 UA
by Gwen Carlson Jan. 15, 2016

Jan. 15, 2016

All, This is the email Lars sent along with a description (attached.) G Gwen Carlson Director, Communications ICANN Global Domains Division Direct: +1 310 578 8653 Mobile: +1 619 322 3188 www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/> From: Lars Steffen [mailto:lars.steffen@eco.de] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 5:02 AM To: Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson(a)icann.org>; Don Hollander <don.hollander(a)icann.org> Cc: Jean-Jacques Sahel <jean-jacques.sahel(a)icann.org>; 'Thomas Rickert' <thomas(a)rickert.net> Subject: ICANN @ CSA Customer Summit 4 UA Dear Gwen, hello Don, I am contacting you because Jean-Jacques and me are exchanging thoughts on joint activities of ICANN and eco in 2016. One of the events we are discussing about is the Customer Summit of the Certified Senders Alliance (https://certified-senders.eu/) I am responsible for the Names & Numbers Forum working group at eco (https://numbers.eco.de/international.html) lead by Thomas Rickert. The Certified Senders Alliance is a joint project by eco - association of the Internet industry (https://international.eco.de) and German Dialogue Marketing Association (DDV, https://www.ddv.de) The summit addresses the technical email community at E-Mail Service Providers and Internet Service Providers. Attached to this email you find a briefing paper for the event. From my point of view it is a perfect target audience to address Universal Acceptance. Jean-Jacques and me already discussed in general that it would make sense that ICANN appears on the agenda for a presentation or - if it may make sense - a workshop. With an "powered by ICANN" contribution we could give that topic the value we think it deserves. The Summit will take place 21 April 2016 (main event) in Cologne. The whole event will be held in English. Why I am contacting you right now is that Jean-Jacques and me were thinking about who may be the right person for giving a presentation / workshop on UA to mainly email administrators. To make it valuable, a deeper knowledge in technical layers is needed. When it comes to the UASG there are of course several persons who would be a perfect match. But maybe you have additional ideas who would be a good choice, maybe also based in Europe. I would appreciate your feedback on this and say "thank you" in advance for your efforts. If you need further information or details, please don´t hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Lars Steffen Member Services ------------------------------ eco - association of the Internet industry Lichtstraße 43h 50825 Cologne Fon: +49 (0) 221 - 70 00 48 - 176 Mobil: +49 (0) 175 - 3 23 77 93 Fax: +49 (0) 221 - 70 00 48 - 111 E-Mail: lars.steffen(a)eco.de<mailto:lars.steffen@eco.de> Web: https://www.eco.de<https://www.eco.de/> Twitter: @larssteffen [https://intranet.eco.de/typo3temp/pics/65b6dde250.png] Wir gestalten das Internet. Heute. Gestern. Über Morgen. ------------------------------ eco - Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V. Geschäftsführer: Harald A. Summa Vorstand: Prof. Michael Rotert (Vorsitzender), Oliver Süme (stv. Vorsitzender), Klaus Landefeld, Felix Höger, Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann Vereinsregister: Amtsgericht Köln, VR 14478 Sitz des Vereins: Köln

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UA Coordination Meeting - Day 2
by Don Hollander Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

For those of you following the UA Coordination meeting, tomorrow’s meeting will start at 8:00 AM in Washington DC. The first few hours will focus on reviewing the Introduction to Universal Acceptance document. Connection details are as before. Don

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Fwd: Adobe Connect - Note Pod Content from Universal Acceptance
by Don Hollander Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

During this morning’s meeting of the UASG Coordination Group, we reviewed the charter. Below are some notes that we thought might provide a clearer approach. Your thoughts are welcome. Don Begin forwarded message: From: "\"Don Hollander\"" <admin(a)adobeconnect.com<mailto:admin@adobeconnect.com>> Subject: Adobe Connect - Note Pod Content from Universal Acceptance Date: 15 January 2016 at 6:05:19 AM NZDT To: <don.hollander(a)icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> Reply-To: "\"Don Hollander\"" <don.hollander(a)icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org>> DELEGATE: Governance, Decision making (with transparency) - To UASG coordinator, with approval process by Chair DEVELOPMENT TRACK (done by the UASG) - Pitch packages, marketing messages, core documents - Roadmaps for where the community/industry needs to go - Repositiories for UA issues - Metrics to measure UA readiness - Case studies - Best practices - Coordinate technical remediation work INDUSTRY IMPLEMENTORS TRACK (done in the Industry) - CONVENE: - Conversations - Gap identification workshops - Solution demo workshops - Collaboration amongst industry players, technology implementors COMMUNICATION TRACK (done by the UASG) - ADVOCATE & COMMUNICATE: Create core documents, marketing messages, a pitch package

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Reminder - UA Coordination Group meeting - Thursday the 14th & Friday the 15th
by Don Hollander Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

As a reminder, please find attached the agenda for the UASG Coordination Group face-to-face meeting set to begin at 10:00 AM on Thursday, Washington DC Time. If you let me know if there’s a particular section that you want to be online for, let me know and I’ll try to send a reminder as we get to that section. Don

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Latest drafts of UA documents
by Mark Svancarek Jan. 14, 2016

Jan. 14, 2016

Hi, you can see the latest drafts of the documents here. (A master document, a "Definition of UA" document, and some "quick guides".) We have most of the missing new content now added, so we can begin whittling down and parsing out the sections into the various audience sub-documents (CIO, developer, etc). * Backup of Technical Specification for Universal Acceptance of gTLDs, IDN-IRIs and EAI - draft6.wbk-2<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fonedrive.l…> * Quick Guides<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fonedrive.l…> I'm in Hampton Inn White House right now, LMK if you have any questions or issues accessing. 425-941-2419 /marksv

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Just how big is this UA community outreach challenge? 18.5 Million people.
by Don Hollander Jan. 13, 2016

Jan. 13, 2016

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/IDC-software-developers IDC Study: How Many Software Developers Are Out There? IDC<http://www.idc.com/> has published the “2014 Worldwide Software Developer and ICT-Skilled Worker Estimates<http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=244709>” document, a study estimating the number of professional software developers, hobbyist developers and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)-skilled workers in the world at the start of 2014. The 90 countries covered in the study represent 97% of the world’s GDP. According to Al Hilwa<http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF003108>, Research Director at IDC and author of the above mentioned study, there are an estimated “29 million ICT-skilled workers in the world as we enter 2014, including 11 million professional developers.” Besides those, there are estimated to be another 7.5M hobbyist software developers around the globe, the actual numbers being depicted in the table below: [image]<http://cdn.infoq.com/statics_s1_20160105-0313u5/resource/news/2014/01/IDC-s…> The number of professional software developers by major economic regions is shown in the following chart: [image]<http://cdn.infoq.com/statics_s1_20160105-0313u5/resource/news/2014/01/IDC-s…> When it comes to countries, United States has the most software developers (professional + hobbyist) – 19.2%, followed by China with 10.1% and India with 9.8%. The document includes detailed statistics for all the countries covered by this study. Definitions used, according to the IDC study: Professional software developers are persons engaged in gainful employment where the primary activity is the construction of software or the direct supervision of such activity. Pro developers include the following workers, based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ classification: * Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. * Analyze user needs and develop software solutions. * Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. * May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. * May supervise computer programmers. Hobbyists are a new category of persons involved with software and tracked by IDC in their studies. According to this document, Hobbyist software developers range from persons engaged in software development to a much more limited degree so that it cannot be fairly classified as their primary occupation, even if they have formal occupations in the labor force. Hobbyist developers may also be students, who form a large chunk of this population. Hobbyist developers may also be unemployed or otherwise outside a country's labor force. The ICT-skilled workers include the professional developers, a small number of hobbyist and ICT operations and management-skilled workers, the study defining the later as: Simplistically, everyone in the classic ICT occupation classifications and the expanded STEM classifications, who is involved in ICT but is not deemed a professional software developer as described above, was counted as an ICT operations and management skilled worker. The primary occupations contributing to this number are systems, database, and network managers. The relationship between professional software developers, hobbyist and ICT workers is shown in the next graphic: [IDC-overlap]<http://cdn.infoq.com/statics_s1_20160105-0313u5/resource/news/2014/01/IDC-s…> Regarding the methodology used to estimate the number of ITC-skilled workers worldwide, IDC has relied on workforce statistical data (Eurostat, , ILO, country statistical organizations such as the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, etc.) provided by 54 of the countries studied. For other countries, IDC used the analysis of “secondary and tertiary education enrollment and for tertiary education graduations in STEM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields>-related fields available from the OECD.” For a small fraction of the countries for which there was no direct statistical data available, IDC relied on “macroeconomic data on labor force population sizes, GDP, education levels, human development indices, and IDC software spend data sets such as available from IDC's Software Tracker.” To answer the question in the title, currently there are an estimated 11,005,000 professional software developers, with 554,483 (5.3%) more than in 2011, and some 7.5M additional hobbyist, a community which has not been estimated by IDC before.

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Regarding .MUSIC
by Mark Svancarek Jan. 9, 2016

Jan. 9, 2016

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20161206_how_dot_music_will_go_mainstream_and… Also mentions .BANK

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