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UASG007 - Introduction to Universal Acceptance - Version 8 Published
by Don Hollander May 6, 2016

May 6, 2016

A quick note to advise that version 8 of the Introduction to Universal Acceptance, the 40 page technical look at UA, has been published. https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/Documents This document aims to be a comprehensive look at the issues around UA with some recommendations of good practice. It’s target audience is the Systems Architects and Developers who have been tasked with getting their applications UA Ready. Many thanks to the authors, Mark & Luisa, and all others who have had a hand in it. The plan is to review the document again toward the end of this year/ beginning of next year, once it’s been ‘in the wild’ for a while to see how it can be improved. Please share it with your own development teams as they work to make your own systems UA Ready. (You do have a team in your organisation working on this, don’t you?) Don

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webmaster engagement letter update ?
by Ronald Geens May 6, 2016

May 6, 2016

Hi, today I wanted to send another complaint mail to a website that did not accept my private .vlaanderen address and I noticed that the template letter still contains a link to ua.thedna.org<http://ua.thedna.org> which seems to be down. As not everybody would check if the link still exists before sending the letter I guess it is best to simply remove it from the letter template. On a related note: Are there any plan for having another easy to link/read webpage (in stead of a document/quick guide) on where to point webmasters for supporting standard e-mail addresses ? The alternative ICANN link is not very friendly looking (and looks dated due to the year 2012 mentioned there) Best regards, Ron

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AUTO: Ahmed Bakhat Masood is out of the office. (returning 05/07/2016)
by Ahmed Bakhat Masood May 5, 2016

May 5, 2016

I am out of the office until 05/07/2016. 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 17, Issue 3" sent on 05/05/2016 5:00:02 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Fwd: [DENICpublic-l] Thunderbird 45 Now Also IDNA-Compatible Due To DENIC Source Code Donation
by Frank Michlick May 4, 2016

May 4, 2016

All it takes is a donation... FYI. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [DENICpublic-l] Thunderbird 45 Now Also IDNA-Compatible Due To DENIC Source Code Donation Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:25:49 +0200 From: DENIC Presse <presse(a)denic.de> To: Public-l(a)denic.de Dear Sir or Madam, DENIC has contributed part of the code for the new version 45 of the free e-mail client Mozilla Thunderbird (https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/) which was launched in mid-April 2016: Thanks to this donation to the open-source community, Thunderbird now for the first time supports, besides numerous other novel functions, certain special characters (Internationalized Domain Names, IDNs) such as the German letter "Eszett" (Ã) in e-mail addresses. Up to now, if the domain part of an e-mail address (i.e. the part after the [at] sign) contained the letter "Ã", this letter has been converted automatically to the character string "ss", despite mail programs having been able to handle this special character since August 2010 in theory. At that time, the Internet Standard for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA2008) had been adapted correspondingly by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). DENIC, too, had included the "Eszett" more than five years ago in the set of characters permitted for .de domains already. However, to date the practicality of this had been limited due to the lack of support by web browsers and e-mail applications. The DENIC-coded novelty in Thunderbird 45 is also of benefit to the users of other language families which are not based on Latin characters: In fact it paved the way for the entire range of characters under IDNA2008 to be fully available in Thunderbird starting as of now. Additionally, various characters from Greek, Farsi and Sinhala, for which re-routing has taken place so far, are now able to be resolved as characters in domains in their own right. Overall, the IDNA2008 standard, which is based on the Unicode character set, allows the coding of thousands of new characters from various script systems. As a result, tens of thousands of characters from a multitude of different script systems may be used actively in Internet browsers and e-mail applications, provided that the required client support is available. On DENICâs website, we provide a list of programs that are currently IDNA-capable (https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/idn-domains/idn-capable-software/) */Donated IDNA Source Code Earlier Implemented in Firefox 45 Already/* Already since the start of March, the latest version of the Mozilla browser Firefox (Firefox 45) has been using the IDNA source code donated by DENIC (https://www.denic.de/en/whats-new/news/article/denic-contributes-source-cod…) and thus enables Internet users to access domains that contain certain special characters such as the German letter "Eszett" (Ã). For the time being, the new code cannot yet be used in the Firefox application for Android. This is due to the particularities of the Google platform. A very prompt reaction to the launch of the IDNA standard came at that time from the developers of the Libidn2 library, which serves to code and decode internationalized domain names: They implemented the revised algorithm of the IDNA standard on the basis of a corresponding source code donation by DENIC as early as in 2011. Kind regards Stefanie Welters Public Relations -- DENIC eG, KaiserstraÃe 75 - 77, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY E-Mail: presse(a)denic.de, Fon: +49 69 27235-274, Fax: -235 https://www.denic.de <https://www.denic.de/> Angaben nach Â§ 25a Absatz 1 GenG: DENIC eG (Sitz: Frankfurt am Main) Vorstand: Helga KrÃ¼ger, Andreas Musielak, Carsten Schiefner, Dr. JÃ¶rg Schweiger Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Thomas Keller Eingetragen unter Nr. 770 im Genossenschaftsregister, Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main

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UASG Coordination Group Call
by Don Hollander May 2, 2016

May 2, 2016

There will be a conference call of the UA Coordination Group @23:00 UTC on 4 May 2016 The agenda is below. Please advise Any Other Business ahead of time if you can. Don Agenda UA Coordination Group May 2016 Date: 4 May 16 23:00 UTC https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance MobileUSA tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559#<tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559> MobileNZ: tel://0800-459-127,*,,7375086559# MobileHK tel://800-968-082,*,,7375086559# MobileUK tel://0800-368-0950,*,,7375086559# Phone Only Controls : https://go.conferencinghub.com/1n1zr Other numbers available by request. May 2016 1. Attendance/Apologies 2. Review of March Meeting Notes 3. Actions from March Meeting * White Paper Help Wanted Request will be issued on Monday by Don - DONE * New charter to be published to the UA Wiki page next week. - DONE * Change in Coordination Group - DONE * Unbudgeted Projects Approved - DONE o Enhanced website evaluation and outreach o Bring Web Site development into the current financial year * Agreed that a UA-Announce List will be created that will include notice of meetings coming and been. - DONE * UA(a)Neardear.la<mailto:UA@Neardear.la> o This has been approved and Tony Harris is driving local initiative. o We are still seeking a local 'geek' to provide presentation - DONE * Registry of Interests - DONE * Unicode & IDNA - In Progress 4. UA @ GDD Summit 5. UA @ ICANN56 6. Current Projects Update * UA Use Case o Browser landing pages o Mail Responses * Browser Review * Programming Language Frameworks Review & Mitigation o Criteria o Reviews o Mitigation * Website * White Paper 7. Current Document Review * Quick Guides - Acceptance, Validation, Processing, Storage, Display * Other Quick Guides o Contracts o Linkification o EAI * Introduction to Universal Acceptance - Version 8 8. Communications/PR Activities * 9. Events * 10. Administration * 11. AoB *

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Help Wanted… IDN, Unicode, Network Protocols and IETF engagement skills wanted
by Don Hollander May 1, 2016

May 1, 2016

Further to the note for comments on the draft Help Wanted advertisement, please find attached the final version our our document. If you or someone you know or someone you know might know have/has the skills, experience, temperament and interest in this, please submit or encourage the submission of an applications. The deadline for submissions is two weeks, but earlier responses will be most welcome indeed. Don

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