January 2018 - UA-discuss - lists.iana.org

Universal Acceptance now on Wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Acceptance
by Don Hollander July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020

A nice way to end a fairly productive year. Plans coming up: There will be a Universal Acceptance gathering on Monday the 8th of January in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong IT Community. This is being organised by .asia, ISOC HK and UASG. If you’ve not yet received an invitation but will be in Hong Kong that afternoon, please let me know and we’ll organise one. 15:00 - 18:00 at the Sheraton. The UASG Coordination Group will be meeting on Tuesday the 9th of January and the morning of the 10th if necessary, also in Hong Kong. The agenda will be out next week. Full remote participation will be available if there’s interest. There will be a meeting of EAI operators on the 11th and 12th in Guangzhou, China, hosted by Coremail and CNNIC. If you are an EAI practitioner and would like to participate and have not otherwise registered, please let me know. I expect that we’ll have remote participation facilities. The UASG is expecting another UA Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico as well as a public update session during the week. Dates and venues still to be confirmed. Happy New Year to everyone. If you’re out celebrating, please get home safe. Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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Walking the Talk... The UASG is seeking an EAI computable Email Service
by Don Hollander Jan. 31, 2018

Jan. 31, 2018

Dear all: The UASG wants to make sure that it’s own email system support EAI address - both send and receiving but also potentially hosting. Our current system doesn’t. Toward that end, the attached Help Wanted advertisement seeks someone to provide such a service. It will be published on the UASG Help Wanted pages in the morning UTC time. Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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interesting UA issue discovered
by Edmon Jan. 30, 2018

Jan. 30, 2018

We have been advocating for more lenience in allowing new TLDs in linkification.... seems like we just found an interesting issue that propped up... One of the tools (social media one) converted a domain we were posting in brackets: (http://ymi.asia) into a link for "ymi.asia)" included the close-bracket in the link... accidentally creating a dead link, we suspect they tried to update their previous script to allow anything after the dot until a space... should we look into any of our documents to flag this?.. Edmon

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Reminder - Help Wanted Adverisments closing soon
by Don Hollander Jan. 29, 2018

Jan. 29, 2018

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new site
by Andre Schappo Jan. 29, 2018

Jan. 29, 2018

New site domainnamestats.com<http://domainnamestats.com> So I went to what I consider is the current IDN hotspot which is India and Rajasthan. I selected "National Internet Exchange of India" and "In Root Zone" But... LastUpdate is pending for all but .in I will try again another time André Schappo

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Logistics for UASG Workshop - Assuming Saturday, the 10th of March, in Puerto Rico @ ICANN61
by Don Hollander Jan. 28, 2018

Jan. 28, 2018

So that we can have a room big enough, but not too big, can you please let me know (off list to reduce traffic) whether you expect to be at the workshop? Also, if you have any items you would like included in the agenda, please add that too. Thanks. Don

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Update on ICANN61 Activities
by Don Hollander Jan. 27, 2018

Jan. 27, 2018

Dear all: Currently plans are for a UASG workshop on the Saturday, the 10th of March Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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[FYI] Call for Participation Announced! - 42nd Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - September 10-12, 2018
by Jim DeLaHunt Jan. 26, 2018

Jan. 26, 2018

Hello all, I think the Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC42) is a very good audience for Universal Acceptance messages. I encourage people to consider proposing talks or tutorials for this conference. The conference is 10-12 September, 2018, in Santa Clara, California, USA. The deadline to submit proposals is 9 March, 2018. Last year they let me do a tutorial on Universal Acceptance (domain names and email addresses) in general. It went well, and I intend to propose that again. Also, last year they let me do a presentation on "Universal Acceptance of non-Latin email addresses and domain names: how does your framework rate?", based on this group's UASG0018 note. I think I want to propose something about current UA activity, but updated from the 2017 content. There is a lot of good UA activity going on, much of it by people in this group. I would be pleased to see multiple proposals on UA-related topics submitted to IUC42. It won't all get accepted, but probably more strong proposals will lead to more good content getting accepted. More information on the conference, and submission process, is at <http://www.unicodeconference.org/call-for-participation.htm>. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Call for Participation Announced! - 42nd Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - September 10-12, 2018 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:24:16 -0500 From: Unicode Conference <programs(a)unicodeconference.org> To: from.unicodeconf(a)jdlh.com IUC 42 Conference To see this message in your browser click *here <http://www.unicodeconference.org/e-marketing/IUC42-CfP-012418.htm>* Internationalization & Unicode Conference 42. September 10-12, 2018 - Santa Clara, CA U.S.A. *Call for Participation Announced!* The IUC 42 Program Committee invites you to submit your session, tutorial, or panel abstracts for the 42nd Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 42) in Santa Clara, California, September 10-12, 2018. Join other industry leaders as they map the future of internationalization, ignite new ideas, and showcase the latest technologies and best practices for creating, managing, and testing global, web, and multilingual software solutions. Let imagination be your only limit! Please submit a brief abstract by the deadline of Friday, March 9, 2018. Submit Now! <http://www.unicodeconference.org/call-for-participation.htm> * *The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, April 13, 2018. Speaker agreements and materials such as photos, bios and final presentation abstracts will be required from selected presenters by Friday, April 27, 2018. 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Open source library for punycode handling
by Mark Svancarek Jan. 26, 2018

Jan. 26, 2018

My Office for Macintosh developer just reached out to inform me that the development platform he is using doesn't have a built-in punycode converter function. He is evaluating open source. Do we have any recos for him? (We will of course report back to the community once we have selected a library and implemented.) Thanks.

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Draft Report - Linkification
by Don Hollander Jan. 25, 2018

Jan. 25, 2018

Dear all: Last year we commissioned a review of the linkification efforts for the most popular social media applications. We tested to see how email addresses and domain names were linked (or not) The attached draft report is the result of this effort. I would welcome very much your comments, suggestions, corrections around this report before the beginning of February. At that point, we will circulate it for comment with the social media organisations that we know and take their comments on board too. I hope to publish this before the ICANN meeting. Please remember, this is a DRAFT. Kind regards, Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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