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

Sina's .微博 & .weibo
by Andre Schappo April 6, 2016

April 6, 2016

Sina's 新浪的 new gTLDs .微博 & .weibo are now live http://nic.微博 http://nic.weibo There is some dated info from their application at https://icannwiki.com/.微博 These TLDs have been a long long time coming. Sina is huge in China so I hope these gTLDs will be used effectively and have a positive effect on global usage of new gTLDs. Anyone have any current info on Sina's plans for these TLDs now that they are live. When will they be launching fully functional .微博 address? If anyone sees any announcements (in chinese is good) from Sina or indeed anyone about Sina's new gTLDs now being live, can you please send me links. Links to their plans for these gTLDs would be good as well. A few minutes ago I tested http://nic.微博 and http://nic.xn--9krt00a on weibo and neither linkify. André Schappo

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UA-Announce: New Mailing List - lower traffic volumes
by Don Hollander April 6, 2016

April 6, 2016

During discussions at the ICANN Marrakech meeting, several people expressed frustration with the level of detail on the UA-Discuss list. (There was one particular subscriber that was referenced several times). For those who want to keep up with UA but not at the detail in the UA-Discuss list, we’ve created a new mailing list - UA-Announce. The plan is to use this list to Announce things from time to time. Upcoming meetings and agendas as well as the associated notes, Help Wanted notices, releases of documents, newsletters and such. It is not expected to be a discussion list and the content will be a subset of the UA-Discuss list. If you or someone you know might be interested in subscribing to this list, please let me know directly or subscribe yourself at https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-announce Don

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Confusable characters: M3AAWG, Unicode, EAI and the UASG
by Don Hollander April 5, 2016

April 5, 2016

One item on our ‘to do’ list is to get something published around good practice guides with respect to confusable characters. The M3AAWG has already done this, or at least something like this. I would appreciate those who are interested in the topic to read these and discuss whether the UASG referencing this work, particularly in our documentation around EAI, will be sufficient. Your thoughts, please. Don M3AAWG Best Practices for Unicode Abuse Prevention at https://www.m3aawg.org/sites/default/files/m3aawg-unicode-best-practices-20… M3AAWG Unicode Abuse Overview and Tutorial at https://www.m3aawg.org/sites/default/files/m3aawg-unicode-tutorial-2016-02.…

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Help Wanted - Website Development
by Don Hollander April 5, 2016

April 5, 2016

Here’s the Help Wanted notice for Website Development, in case you or someone you know or might know is interested in building us a wee website. And here’s a link to the same document on-line: Help Wanted - Web Site Development, Hosting & Maintenance<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/58722632/Help%20Wanted%E2%…>

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Draft help wanted request - Website Evaluation and Outreach
by Don Hollander April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016

Dear all: Please find attached a draft Help Wanted notice to help accelerated our Website Evaluation and Outreach activities. This builds on the work that Donuts started in 2014/15 and that Michelle has been working on this year. My plan is to engage several people to pursue this so that we can quickly get some critical mass of data and do analysis. Would you please review this and let me know any suggestions or comments that you my have by the 8th of April (NZ time)? And if you know anyone who might be interested in this work, please let them know that it’s coming. Don

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AUTO: Ahmed Bakhat Masood is out of the office. (returning 04/05/2016)
by Ahmed Bakhat Masood April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016

I am out of the office until 04/05/2016. 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 16, Issue 1" sent on 04/04/2016 5:00:04 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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