April 2019 - 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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GNSO requested deferral of IDN Guidelines 4.0 Vote - CPH / Registrants impact
by Jothan Frakes May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

The GNSO just sent a letter to request that the vote on adoption of the IDN Guidelines 4.0 be deferred There is some UA pain that will come from these Guidelines we should be completely aware of. It is important to identify the manner in which standards can impact the contracted parties, such as the Registries and Registrars, but getting even further out the supply chain into registrants and Internet users, there are some impacts to them as well as their audiences. If the new standard causes something that was a separate registration to become a variant of another registration, or invalidates an existing registration, this is a bad outcome for the innovators, developers, and early patrons that supported the internationalization of the namespace. Part of what the objective of UA is, to my reckoning, is to increase engagement and support of coding projects that will require adoption of standards that may not immediately hold levels of RoI to them, and they are looking for reasons not to do them. These new guidelines are good - and needed - they are the result of many people's hard work, time and wisdom, and address many solutions. The approach of pushing these out is problematic. Further, there seems no recourse for those (even if statistically small) who may be impacted adversely, lose their domain, or have it be invalidated (and thus REVERSE their UA experience) There is potential impact to existing TLDs, and most notably to registrants of second level names where there are registrations using former standards that become unsupported or invalidated. A very important challenge we face with the UA effort is inspiring developers to implement IDN and EAI as we help globalize the Internet through our work. IF the approach on standards will be to invalidate some portion of the community of registrations like this, there must be attention to how this impacts existing innovators. Innovators worked to drive the standards and increase awareness - and the invalidation or deprecation of a registration that someone has carried for a number of years (some are 15+ years) is the precise opposite of a reward for early support, and it is going to send a very loud message to developers. I believe that further review is needed by registries on the technical impacts of the changes, but any delay can help ICANN and the community address the disenfranchisement factor. This should be important to UASG - we need developers to embrace the additional effort that they have to invest in their work to consider IDN, EAI and other things. -Jothan Jothan Frakes +1.206-355-0230 tel +1.206-201-6881 fax

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Universal Acceptance Ambasador Program
by Dr Ajay Data April 30, 2019

April 30, 2019

Hello Everyone, There have been lot of talks about Ambassador program since last few months and this promoted us to learn more about the Ambassador program, particularly its rationale , process adopted, expected outcome etc. So here are some of the answers we are able to collect, which probably will explain queries about UAA for all of us . Did we announce Universal Acceptance Ambassador (UAA) program on uasg.tech website to call for application? if yes, when and how we did it. Give us dates please . Answer : We made an announcement to the UA-Discuss list. We published a Help Wanted Ad (which is still open), https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/UA-Ambassadors-18-01-15.pdf which was done on January 15th 2018 What was the criteria for eligibility of UAA, please share the URL of document if any? Answer: Criteria is in the Help Wanted ad shown above . Was there any announcement of appointment of UAA on uasg.tech site , please share URL and when it was done . Answer: https://uasg.tech/2018/04/introducing-the-first-ua-ambassadors/ on 25 April 2018 Was there anyone (except elected leadership) from ICANN/Society/Members involved in the selection of UAA at the time of appointment? Answer: The Secretary General took the applications, assessed them and prepared a recommendation for the Coordination Group. If the Secretary General didn&rsquot know a person they would check with the ICANN GSE team who could provide advice. Only members of the UASG Coordination Group were involved . Please share the list of UAA with their term start and end date . Answer: The list of UA Ambassadors is shown here: https://uasg.tech/people/ Harish, Abdalmonem, Ashish, Elaine, and Dusan were in the first group. John Levine joined early on. Mark Datysgeld only recently. Tobias came after the Puerto Rico meeting and resigned recently. We haven&rsquot been keeping a registry . Please share the understanding of UAA&rsquos if they will continue to remain UAA till asked to step down? If not, what decision was taken by leadership at the time of expiry of term? Answer: We&rsquove not discussed this. It&rsquos certainly our expectations and hope that people will continue. We put the year tenure in to the program to allow easy exit if things didn&rsquot work out. As it is volunteer role, we wanted a commitment for at least 12 months and expected it to continued till terminated . Is there any report submitted by UAA&rsquos ? Was it shared with UA members? Please share date and report . Answer: They should provide the Secretary General with a quarterly report. In practice they let the SG know what they&rsquore doing while they&rsquore doing it. A draft annual report has been prepared. We&rsquore not grading individual ambassadors. These are volunteers, they generally do not cost us much, and we see value in keeping them engaged. Is there any evidence of mis-conduct or under performance of any UAA available with us. Please do share if any . Answer: Under performance is a challenging term. We have heard complaints only of about one of the Ambassadors and have reached out to people that we know who have said that their performance is good. The attacks on this one ambassador have been ongoing since before the Barcelona meeting. This ambassador has risen to the occasion anytime they were called on and we are grateful for their continued participation and the support they get from their employer . The Secretary General talks from time to time with each of the ambassadors. This usually includes us identifying opportunities and them identifying opportunities. (It is usually the ambassadors that are seeking opportunities) We sometimes get requests from them that aren&rsquot appropriate and we don&rsquot go further. The SG often checks with the local GSE team . How many applications of UAA were received before and after 13th March 2019 (since new leadership started getting on board) ? and how many were approved . Answer: We&rsquove received 10 applications.One was declined.One left after appointment.One is pending for decision.None have been received since Kobe . Hopefully, This answers the queries to the UAA program and lets all join our hands together to make this Universal Ambassador a success. Please feel free to send us email to let us know in which area of UA you would like to contribute in our joint mission . Best Wishes Dr. Ajay DataChairUniversal Acceptance Steering Group [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20190419213015743[-HID]

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Re: [UA-discuss] Some brief updates
by Ashish Modi April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Great News!!Welcome Walter to the UA Ambassadors league.Regards,AM From: Don Hollander MailId : [90709923]To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" Subject: [UA-discuss] Some brief updatesDate: 26 Apr 2019 03:28:30 PM Please note: Walter Wu is a new UA Ambassador based in China https://uasg.tech/people/ A revised version of UASG005 has been published in English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG005-en-digital.pdf Translations are underway and will be published as soon as they become available . Don Don Hollander Secretary General &ndash UASG Skype: Don_Hollander Do not Remove:[HID]2019042615283074[-HID]

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Some regional initiatives on UA
by Maria Kolesnikova April 27, 2019

April 27, 2019

Dear all, Just want to share with your some news about our regional initiatives: <https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=12976> https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=12976 BR, Maria

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Some brief updates
by Don Hollander April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Please note: Walter Wu is a new UA Ambassador based in China https://uasg.tech/people/ A revised version of UASG005 has been published in English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG005-en-digital.pdf Translations are underway and will be published as soon as they become available. Don Don Hollander Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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Re: [UA-discuss] Some brief updates
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Welcome aboard, Walter! Looking forward to working with you. Best, Dennis From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Don Hollander <don.hollander(a)icann.org> Date: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 5:58 AM To: "UA-discuss(a)icann.org" <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [UA-discuss] Some brief updates Please note: Walter Wu is a new UA Ambassador based in China https://uasg.tech/people/ A revised version of UASG005 has been published in English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG005-en-digital.pdf Translations are underway and will be published as soon as they become available. Don Don Hollander Secretary General – UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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Re: [UA-discuss] Some brief updates
by Nitin Walia April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019

Thanks DON for Sharing the Information . Heartiest Congratulations to Walter Wu on your well-deserved position . Warm Regards Nitin Walia | DirectorData Ingenious Global Limited(Formerly known as Data Infosys Limited)Tel: +91-141-2554970Fax: +91-141-2554972LinkedIn TwitterGet email id like नितिन(a)xn--c2bd1gb.xn--h2brj9c in your own language, download DATAMAIL app from your iOS or android play store. From: Don Hollander MailId : [90709925]To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" Subject: [UA-discuss] Some brief updatesDate: 26 Apr 2019 03:28:32 PM Please note: Walter Wu is a new UA Ambassador based in China https://uasg.tech/people/ A revised version of UASG005 has been published in English https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG005-en-digital.pdf Translations are underway and will be published as soon as they become available . Don Don Hollander Secretary General &ndash UASG Skype: Don_Hollander Do not Remove:[HID]20190426152832222[-HID] [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER]

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First Draft: UASG024 - UA Readiness of Command Line Tools
by Don Hollander April 23, 2019

April 23, 2019

One of the requests that came out of the Barcelona meeting was to do a review of the UA Readiness of Command Line Tools. Here's a draft of the report https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aq2WU6G5jDZ5grIaNq1p5JhSusI26A Can I please have comments before the end of the month? Thanks. Don Don Hollander Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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Breaking the Internet Language Barrier
by Dr Ajay Data April 20, 2019

April 20, 2019

Hello I am pleased to share the Article Co-authored by Prof V Sridhar &amp Ajay Data, published today in Financial Express. Have a great weekend. Thanks. http://epaper.financialexpress.com/c/38673650 [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20190331225902341[-HID]

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