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Updates to the UA Wiki Page uasg.tech
by Don Hollander Nov. 15, 2016

Nov. 15, 2016

Dear all: There have been some updates to the UA Wiki page over the past couple of days: In the Documents tab, we have added: UASG005 - Quick Guides in Chinese, Arabic and Russian UASG009 - Quick Guide to Tender and Contractual Documents At the bottom of this same page we have also added a Registry of Interests for those in the Coordination Group - so that there is transparency of potential vested interests when we contract out work. Don

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Revised UASG004 - UA Use Cases - ready to be published.
by Don Hollander Sept. 9, 2016

Sept. 9, 2016

We’ve made a couple of changes to the UASG004 UA Use Cases document that have come up as people start using them to test their systems and I want to make sure that the information in the attached is correct. Particularly, we’ve created another test case for the ‘open dot’ “。” character that is sometimes used instead of the traditional ‘.’ Our documentation indicates that we expect applications to convert these ‘open dots’ to normal ‘.’ dots. We are still having some discussions around the Right-to-left scripts, mostly because copy/paste sometimes appears to do some transformations. Your thoughts are welcome on both topics, or others. Thanks. Don

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UASG011 - DRAFT - FAQ's
by Don Hollander Aug. 8, 2016

Aug. 8, 2016

We’ve been developing an FAQ. The 1st draft is attached. Again, can I please get comments by the end of the month? Thanks. Don

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Language - how do you refer to non-ASCII to a non-technical audience?
by Don Hollander Aug. 1, 2016

Aug. 1, 2016

I’ve been grappling with this for la very long and now find out I’m not the only one. So, how would you simply refer to IDNs. a) non-ASCII - probably technically correct, but would your grandmother know what this meant? b) non-Latin - Not even close to being correct as Latin character sets have all sorts of extra bits and bobs c) non-English - Currently my favourite at the moment. I’m looking for something really short. Your thoughts? Don

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UA Coordination Group August Call
by Don Hollander July 30, 2016

July 30, 2016

This is notice of a UA Coordination Group call on 3 August 2016 @ 23:00 UTC - our normal meeting time and place Please note other upcoming calls: - EAI Working Group - 1st week of August. Let me know if you're running or building an EAI system and want to attend - Programming Evaluation Criteria. Currently waiting for the first draft of this to be completed. Once this is done, we'll convene a call to go over it. - UA Ready Criteria working group. Depending on the outcome of this UA Coordination Group call, if we decide to work on this, then we'll convene a call in August - UA Issue Logging. Depending on the outcome of this UA Coordination Group call, if we decide to work on this, then we'll convene a call in August. - There may also be a continuation of this call if we don't get to everything. Any questions or comments and request for speaking slots, please let me know. Don Agenda UA Coordination Group August 2016 Date: 3 August 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. August 2016 1. Attendance/Apologies 2. Review of June 2016 Meeting Notes 3. Actions from June 2016 Meeting * We'll develop an on-line survey on the UASG's performance and opportunities for the future. This will probably be issued immediately at the end of the UA presentation in Helsinki - Only just started * Unicode Conference in Santa Clara November 1 - 3. Possible inclusion in the Breaking All Barriers section. 4. UA @ ICANN56 5. Current Projects Update * UA Use Case o Do we include an emoji.TLD Use case? * Browser Review * Programming Language Frameworks Review & Mitigation o Criteria o Reviews o Mitigation * White Paper * IETF/Unicode Consortium * Website Evaluations * IDG CIO Executive Council 6. Current Document Review * UASG003 - Revision of UA Fact Sheet * UASG011 - FAQs 7. Potential Projects * Problem Logging * UA Readiness Criteria * UA Readiness Automated Evaluation Tool(s) * UA in the Internet Industry * University Lectures - UA & EAI * M3WAAG Membership ($1,000 - not for profit, but ICANN is already a member) * UA Conference * Whack-a-mole? How to engage the North American and European CIOs? 8. EAI * Group Creation * EAI Ready Evaluation Criteria o Client o Server * EAI Readiness Evaluation Project o Criteria for inclusion in the evaluation * Quick Guide to EAI 9. Communications/PR Activities * Local Outreach o Australian Pilot * Case Studies * Analyst Briefings 10. Events * Face to Face Meeting * Program for India 11. Administration * Procurement Processes * FY 15/16 End of Year Results 12. AoB *

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Email client marketshare
by Dusan Stojicevic July 28, 2016

July 28, 2016

FYI https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

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UASG002 - Website Administrator Outreach Note TRANSLATIONS - Request for help, please
by Don Hollander July 26, 2016

July 26, 2016

Dear all: The revised UASG002 has been out for a week now. Besides the supporting comments, there was one comment that suggested those doing work on behalf of the UASG should use a more structured and advanced text. We’ll work on that. In the meantime, I would very much appreciate it if those of you who are bi- or multi-lingual could apply your skills to translate the following: ---- English Dear Website Administrator, I tried to create an account using my email address: xxxxx(a)xxxxx.xxxxx. Your site does not accept it and I’m reaching out to you to please look into and fix this issue. I found more information on new domain names and email addresses at www.uasg.tech <http://www.uasg.tech/>. You might find the information there helpful as you work to fix this problem. Thank you. —— Here’s the link for adding your own translations. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeofaHmtntEgeU1wJPZceiRVUcbaSDMDPMxq18r… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DeofaHmtntEgeU1wJPZceiRVUcbaSDMDPMxq18r…> Last time we did this we got 7 languages. This time, with more than 200 subscribers to the UA-Discuss list, I hope that we can get more. Here are some suggestions. Afrikaans Arabic French Gaelic German Hebrew Hindi Italian Maori Persian Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Tongan Welsh Thanks. Don

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Re: [UA-discuss] Language - how do you refer to non-ASCII to a non-technical audience?
by Hazem Hezzah July 23, 2016

July 23, 2016

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Revised UASG003 - Fact Sheet
by Don Hollander July 22, 2016

July 22, 2016

Please find attached a revised version of UASG003 It’s changed to reflect the clear communication messages that we went over in Helsinki. Could you please make comments or corrections by the end of July? Thanks. Don

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Video from Thailand on Importance of Universal Acceptance
by Eric Zelenka July 18, 2016

July 18, 2016

All, A couple months ago I saw an excellent, albeit funny, video from Thailand on the importance of Universal Acceptance. Does anyone remember the video and/or where I can find it? I searched The Google but I could not find. Thanks, — Eric

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List of Computer Societies around the world...
by Don Hollander July 18, 2016

July 18, 2016

As we start developing our outreach strategy, one option we’re considering is leveraging the Computer Societies of the world. And by Computer Societies I meet membership organisations aimed at the computer professional generally or the CIO or Software community specifically. I’ve created a table at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t81pnBJVseQQ7lGMrxhdMr4jzLPXNkORVRN… I would appreciate it if you could have a look and either let me know or make the edits yourself of other Computer Societies that you know of or that you are a member. The table I’ve created so far is below and at the link above. I would like to get this mostly settled by the end of this month. Thanks. Don Country Name Website Contacts Comments Canada Canadian Information Processing Society Hong Kong Hong Kong Computer Society India Computer Society of India Malaysia Malaysian National Computer Confederation New Zealand Institute of IT Professionals NZ (formerly NZ Computer Society) Pakistan Computer Society of Pakistan Singapore Singapore Computer Society South Africa Computer Society of South Africa Sri Lanka Computer Society of Sri Lanka UK British Computer Society UK Association for Computing Machinery

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namestat
by Andre Schappo July 14, 2016

July 14, 2016

I have been using https://namestat.org for quite some time. It occurred to me that maybe not everyone on this list knows of this site. It is updated frequently and provides a wealth of information on the New gTLDs, including:- ㊀ number of Domain Names registered ㊁ registrars selling gTLD Domain Names ㊂ world maps showing distribution of gTLD Domain Names by country eg detailed info on .tech ➜ https://namestat.org/tech detailed info on .コム ➜ https://namestat.org/xn--tckwe André Schappo

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Introducing ourselves
by Chaals McCathie Nevile July 13, 2016

July 13, 2016

Hi, Alexey Kapranov and I were recently added to this list, after Dusan Stojicevic and Don Hollander talked to me recently. Alexey is a project manager in the Yandex Mail team, I'm a standards guy at Yandex. We're interested in fully internationalised email addresses, in particular. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex chaals(a)yandex-team.ru - - - Find more at http://yandex.com

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Introduction: Jovenet Consulting / Jean Guillon
by Contact July 13, 2016

July 13, 2016

Hello, I am a new follower of this list. I am interested in new gTLD registration volumes and dotBrand new gTLD applications. I do the promotion of new gTLDs and provide new gTLD consultancy services. -- *Jean Guillon* contact(a)jovenet.email Phone: +33.631109837 www.jovenet.consulting

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good changes in google chrome
by Andre Schappo July 10, 2016

July 10, 2016

In order to whitelist IDNs in Chrome one had to add languages in it's preferences. So, for example, if one added Chinese in Chrome preferences then a Chinese IDN would display as Chinese in the browser address bar rather than punycode i.e. it is whitelisted by adding the language in preferences. This has changed for the better. IDNs will now, by default and without user action, display as Unicode instead of punycode. I have not tested every language but so far in my testing IDNs are displayed in Unicode. I have tested using OSX Chrome. In order to test I removed all languages (except English) from my Chrome preferences. I consider this significant forward progress in UA for IDNs. Credit to catchnames on IDNForums for spotting this change http://www.idnforums.com/forums/35434-google-now-supports-idn-in-chrome.html I wonder when this change happened? André Schappo

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Re: [UA-discuss] Revised UASG004 - UA Use Cases - ready to be published.
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis July 6, 2016

July 6, 2016

Thanks for sharing Don. Looks like a good set of test cases. We’ll consider these for our test cases and circle back with any feedback that we may find along the way. -Dennis From: <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Don Hollander <don.hollander(a)icann.org> Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 2:49 AM To: "UA-discuss(a)icann.org" <UA-discuss(a)icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Revised UASG004 - UA Use Cases - ready to be published. We’ve made a couple of changes to the UASG004 UA Use Cases document that have come up as people start using them to test their systems and I want to make sure that the information in the attached is correct. Particularly, we’ve created another test case for the ‘open dot’ “。” character that is sometimes used instead of the traditional ‘.’ Our documentation indicates that we expect applications to convert these ‘open dots’ to normal ‘.’ dots. We are still having some discussions around the Right-to-left scripts, mostly because copy/paste sometimes appears to do some transformations. Your thoughts are welcome on both topics, or others. Thanks. Don

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Notes from Helsinki Meeting
by Don Hollander July 6, 2016

July 6, 2016

Please find attached the notes from the Helsinki meeting. You will be receiving this because your are either a) Subscribed to the UA-Discuss list or b) Provided your email address to us at the meeting. If you fall into the second group and would like to subscribe to the UA Discuss list, please let me know directly. Don

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Website is Live - Please Tweet
by Gwen Carlson July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

Hi Everyone, The new website is live - feel free to tweet with the hashtag #UASG. Thanks, G http://uasg.tech/ Gwen Carlson ICANN/GDD Sr. Communications Director Mobile: +1 619 322 3188 Work: +1 310 578 8653

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IETF Hackathon
by John Dickinson July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Hi, I am going to be at the IETF Hackathon in Berlin and I am thinking of using the time to do a UA review of 1 or 2 DNS library implementations. If anyone is going to be there and is interested in joining me that would be great! Thanks John John Dickinson http://sinodun.com Sinodun Internet Technologies Ltd. Magdalen Centre Oxford Science Park Robert Robinson Avenue Oxford OX4 4GA U.K.

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Turkish has been added to the languages of our Quick Guides
by Don Hollander July 1, 2016

July 1, 2016

Are you fluent in a language and understand the issues? We’d like even more. Don

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