May 2017 - UA-discuss - lists.iana.org

UASG Coordination Call
by Don Hollander May 21, 2017

May 21, 2017

This is notice of a Conference call for the UASG Coordination Group. Even if you're not a formal part of this group, you're welcome to participate. Agenda UA Coordination Group Conference Call Wednesday, 23 May 2017 @ 22:00 UTC http://participate.icann.org/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. 1 Attendance/Apologies Apologies from Jiankang Yao as potential conflict of interest 2 Review of Notes from April 12/13 meeting 3 Agenda Adjustments 4 Thoughts on Funding Criteria for Local Initiatives We put out a Help Wanted ad to fund local UA initiatives. We have two applications. Time to discuss general approach and specifics 5 Financials 6 Inclusion of Anti-Abuse recommendations in documentation Do we want to include Anti-Abuse safety issues in our recommendations? Relevant to Linkification review and Quick Guide to EAI 7 UASG & M3WAAG Discussion on engagement, using the M3WAAG meeting in San Francisco next year as an EAI event, engagement with M3WAAG with respect to entire TLD blocks. 8 AOB

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Microsoft is finally fixing a notorious Outlook emoji problem that's plagued users for seven years
by Mark Svancarek May 19, 2017

May 19, 2017

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-outlook-fixes-j-smiley-emoticon-em…

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Feedback from GDD summit
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Don, During the GDD Summit in Madrid a small group broke out to talk about Universal Acceptance. We mainly talked about the Issue Logging tool and its usage rate. Jothan Frakes did a good job advertising it among the audience. There was one gentleman asking whether the Issue Logging Tool was available in other languages, to which the answer was no. He said that the tool being in English was a constraint. I’m not suggesting the UASG should spend time and resources localizing its website. Use it as a data point. -Dennis

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Egyptian Hieroglyph IDN
by Andre Schappo May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

This is totally cool! An Egyptian Hieroglyph IDN http://𓅯.com<http://%F0%93%85%AF.com> I think it is the flying duck hieroglyph?? All we need to do now is persuade the browser companies to display the unicode form of http://𓅯.com<http://%F0%93%85%AF.com> instead of the punycode form André Schappo

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Document Review - UASG009 Quick Guide to Tender and Contractual Documents
by Don Hollander May 11, 2017

May 11, 2017

As part of our ongoing regular review of our documents, please find UASG009 - UASG009 provides some contractual or tendering clauses that people might want to use with regard to Universal Acceptance (and IPv6 and DNSSEC). It’s available for editing in Google Docs at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-TV9RxGzc8VUkGs2b_VidEifdSHvr-HY_dxJAz… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-TV9RxGzc8VUkGs2b_VidEifdSHvr-HY_dxJAz…> Also attached in this PDF. At this point, we’re looking to add a specific clause for EAI support that people can use when searching for an email system or service. Comments will be open at least through the 22nd of May. Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group Skype: don_hollander

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Mix Script Detection - Test
by Dr. AJAY D A T A May 11, 2017

May 11, 2017

Hello Friends,You may use this tool to input any string and get the result out, to find which all scripts are being used in that string. https://eai.xgenplus.com/Mix_Script_Test.jsp For Example:х.рус x.pyc gives the results as Number of language script found :2 CharactersLanguage Type х Cyrillic . Basic_Latin рус Cyrillic x.pyc Basic_Latin Please give your feedback or suggestions . Dr. Ajay DATA | Founder &amp CEO Get email id like अजय(a)xn--c2bd1gb.xn--h2brj9c in your own language,visit www.xgenplus.com Do not Remove: [HID]20170510173300807[-HID]

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EURid's promotion of UA @ WebIT Bulgaria
by Sebastien Pensis May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

Dear All, Good afternoon, I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to share with you some activities carried out recently by EURid which promoted Universal Acceptance in the Bulgarian market. Please find in attachment to this email a high level report of what was undertaken. We'd like to thank Lars for his guidance in these activities. While due to the event's time-frame we were unable to establish an official cooperation, through Lars we were able to identify rapid action areas where we could implement some awareness raising actions. We will continue to carry out events and would we open to a cooperation with the UASG to advocate for and work towards the building of a UA community in Europe. If you have any questions on this event, please do not hesitate to reach out. Sincerely, Sebastien Sebastien Pensis (Mr.) International Relations Support Manager EURid Woluwelaan 150 1831 Diegem - Belgium TEL.: +32 (0)2 401 3026 MOB:+32 (0)470 10 55 95 sebastien.pensis(a)eurid.eu<mailto:sebastien.pensis@eurid.eu> http://www.eurid.eu<http://www.eurid.eu/> [facebook_icon_email]<https://www.facebook.com/EUregistry>[twitter_icon_email]<https://twitter.com/Euregistry> [cid:image001.png@01D2AC9C.458F71B0] Please consider the environment before printing this email. Disclaimer: This email and any attachment hereto is intended solely for the person to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this email in error, please delete it and immediately contact the sender by telephone or email, and destroy any copies of this information. You should not use or copy it, nor disclose its content to any other person or rely upon this information. Please note that any views presented in the email and any attachment hereto are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of EURid. While all care has been taken to avoid any known viruses, the recipient is advised to check this email and any attachment for presence of viruses. http://www.eurid.eu/en/legal-disclaimer

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UA102 - Comments Open
by Don Hollander May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

The UASG has plans to produce a number of short editorial pieces that can be published in a variety of forums. We have already produce what we call UA101 – an Introduction to Universal Acceptance – and have had it published in a number of forums (and continue to pursue others) The next on our list is what we call UA102 – an Introduction to EAI. It’s pasted below and available for comments and edits at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vK5BwVvtDdsCBmTwe4gDiMt1EVQqWQdnzUa-u0y… I would welcome your expertise and thoughts, particularly on how we can trim it a bit, by the 14th of May. Thanks. Don Bridging the Digital Language Divide – Is Your Email Truly Ready for the Global Market? Email connects people globally with a click of a button, but it’s not as universal as you might imagine. Until recently, people and organizations have had to use non-accented Latin characters (A – Z, 0-9) for their email addresses, even if they only communicate in their local language such as Russian, Hindi, Thai or Chinese. While English has long been thought to be the de facto language of the Internet, most of the world’s population does not use a Latin alphabet (and certainly not an ASCII alphabet) in their daily lives, and the next billion Internet users are even less likely to do so. In order to really make email - and everything available through email, such as social networks, e-commerce, etc. - something that is global and accessible to all, people need to be able to use their native scripts for their email identities. The good news is that’s now possible. Email address internationalization (EAI) is the set of protocols that allows email addresses (mailbox@domainname) that use scripts other than non-accented Latin characters, such as günter(a)xn--bncher-3ya.berlin or ไทย(a)xn--42cf6ad5a0ckwm1d6bo6e.xn--o3cw4h, to function within the traditional email environment. However, for EAI to work, email software and services need to make specific changes to support it. There’s a growing awareness of the issue, with some progress toward a resolution as a number of companies making their systems EAI-ready. Examples include: · Gmail, Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Windows, and others are now able to send to and receive from EAI addresses. · Coremail, XgenPlus, Throughwave and others are able to host EAI addresses. · PostFix and Exim are widely used MTAs that are EAI Ready. But more needs to be done. Gmail, Microsoft and others are working on adding hosting to for EAI addresses to provide a full EAI solution and there are more email software and service providers that either are, or will be, working on providing full support for EAI. To help companies, organizations and governments with EAI, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group[1] (UASG – www.uasg.tech) has developed a number of resources. The purpose of their efforts is to help ensure a consistent and positive experience for Internet users globally. Resources include the “Quick Guide to Email Address Internationalization (EAI)” that gives practical advice for email service providers and email software developers to consider. UASG has also catalogued IETF RFCs such as “EAI including Overview and Framework for Internationalized Email,” SMTP Extension for Internationalized Email and IMAP Support for UTF-8. A full list of RFCs can be found in uasg.tech/documents (“Relevant RFCs” UASG 006). This is now the time for IT operations to get ready to engage with EAI. To do so, you’ll need to follow a few simple steps: Make sure that applications that include an email address are able to support UTF-8 character sets. Make sure that internal mail system is EAI ready – and if it’s a package and you’re not sure, ask email software or service provider when they expect to be EAI ready. Test systems. The UASG offers a number of live use cases that can be used for testing. They’re outlined in “Use Cases for UA Readiness Evaluation.” . With market researchers estimating that nearly half of the worldwide population will be using email by year-end 2020[2], we encourage you to get involved in making sure your email systems are ready for the next billion Internet users. Individual organizations should start looking at their own email systems to see if they are EAI ready and, if they’re not, to talk to their suppliers and ask for their EAI Roadmap. ===== [1] UASG is supported by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is a community-led initiative working on creating awareness and identifying and resolving problems associated with EAI and the broader issue of Universal Acceptance (UA) of domain names and email addresses. [2] http://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Email_Statistics_Repo…

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A “Bug Fix” That Could Unlock the Web for Millions Around the World - MIT Technology Review
by Don Hollander May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017

More coverage of the White Paper > > https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604251/a-bug-fix-that-could-unlock-the-w… <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604251/a-bug-fix-that-could-unlock-the-w…> > > A “Bug Fix” That Could Unlock the Web for Millions Around the World > Too many domain names with non-Latin letters are still shut out of the global Internet economy. > > Mike Orcutt </profile/mike-orcutt/> > Companies that do business online are missing out on billions in annual sales thanks to a bug that is keeping their systems incompatible with Internet domain names made of non-Latin characters. Fixing it could also bring another 17 million people who speak Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Indian languages online. > > Those are the conclusions of a new study <https://uasg.tech/2017/04/u-s-9-8-billion-opportunity-universal-acceptance-…> by an industry-led group sponsored by the International Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN), the organization responsible for maintaining the list of valid Internet domain names. The objective of the so-called Universal Acceptance Steering Group <https://uasg.tech/>, which includes representatives from a number of Internet companies including Microsoft and GoDaddy, is to encourage software developers and service providers to update how their systems validate the string of characters to the right of the dot in a domain name or e-mail address—also called the top-level domain. > > The bug wasn’t an obvious problem until 2011, when ICANN decided to dramatically expand the range of what can appear to the right of the dot (see “ICANN’s Boondoggle <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/428911/icanns-boondoggle/>”). Between 2012 and 2016, the number of top-level domains ballooned from 12 to over 1,200. That includes 100 “internationalized” domains that feature a non-Latin script or Latin-alphabet characters with diacritics, like an umlaut (¨), or ligatures, like the German Eszett (ß). Some 2.6 million internationalized domain names have been registered under the new top-level domains, largely concentrated in the Russian and Chinese languages, according to the new study. > > Many Web applications or e-mail clients recognize top-level domains as valid only if they are composed of characters that can be encoded using American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII. The problem is most pronounced with e-mail addresses, which are required credentials for accessing online bank accounts and social media pages in addition to sending messages. In 2016, the group tested e-mail addresses with non-Latin characters to the right of the dot and found acceptance rates of less than 20 percent. > > The bug fix, which entails changing the fundamental rules that validate domains so that they accept Unicode, a different standard for encoding text that works for many more languages, is relatively straightforward, says Ram Mohan <https://uasg.tech/administrative-group/>, the steering group’s chair. The new research suggests that the potential economic benefits of making the fix outweigh the costs. Too many businesses, including e-commerce firms, e-mail services, and banks, simply aren’t yet aware that their systems don’t accept these new domains, says Mohan. > > Things are improving, though. In 2014, Google updated Gmail to accept and display internationalized domain names without having to rely on an inconvenient workaround that translated the characters into ASCII. Microsoft is in the process of updating its e-mail systems, which include Outlook clients and its cloud-based service, to accept internationalized domain names and e-mail addresses. > > It’s not just about the bottom line, says Mark Svancarek <https://www.icann.org/profiles/mark-svancarek>, a program manager for customer and partner experience at Microsoft, and a vice chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group. To let millions of people be held back from the Internet because “the character set is gibberish to them” is antithetical to his company’s mission, he says. > > Acceptance of non-ASCII domains is likely to spur Internet adoption, since a large portion of the next billion people projected to connect to the Internet predominantly speak and write only in their local languages, says Mohan. Providing accessibility to these people will depend in many ways on the basic assumptions governing the core functions of the Internet, he says. “The problem here is that in some ways this is lazy programming, and because it’s lazy programming, it’s easy to replace it with better programming.” > Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group Skype: don_hollander

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non-standard TLD
by Edmon Chung May 5, 2017

May 5, 2017

Alert to Comms team, We should reach out to the author of: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/google-docs-phish-worm-grabs-your-g oogle-app-permissions-contacts/ His use of: "non-standard top-level domain" is counter to our cause... Edmon

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