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RFC 8398 "Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates" implementation
by Dmitry Belyavsky Aug. 28, 2020

Aug. 28, 2020

Hi all, Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ is happy to announce a draft implementation of RFC 8398 "Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates" for OpenSSL: https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=21240 The implementation and some test examples are available for download here: https://cctld.ru/files/books/EAI.pdf (in Russian) Direct links: Draft implementation - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/rfc8398.diff Test examples - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/root.tar.gz Instructions - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/README.8398 The implementation covers the following cases: - Displaying the EAI in X.509 certificates - Verifying NameConstraints in X.509 certificate chains of trust - Matching EAIs in X.509 with provided EAI. Feel free to test the patch and send feedback to pr(a)cctld.ru or to me directly. -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky

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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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Help Wanted
by Drfaisalal Hamar Sept. 10, 2019

Sept. 10, 2019

Hello I came to know about the adoption of email on IDN domain names in Indian Police forces in local language, is Mr. Sharat Kaviraj here in our group if so please send me DM else can anyone please connect me with him, I want to know more about this initiative of universal acceptance and adoption of EAI done for 100k police official’s, will be a great help for helping our forces also we want to do something in this line in Arabic. Thanks Dr. Faisalal Hamar [https://www.indiatechonline.com/images/it-happened/xgenplus--helps-rajastha…] <https://www.indiatechonline.com/it-happened-in-india.php?id=3425> Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot (centre) launching Rajasthan Police Advanced Communication Systems & RajCop App in Jaipur XGenPlus helps Rajasthan cops with advanced communication system<https://www.indiatechonline.com/it-happened-in-india.php?id=3425> Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has launched an advanced communication systems at Police Head Quarters in Jaipur whereby nearly 100,000 policemen of the state would now be empowered with digital radio, policemail with email Id: police.rajasthan.in and police.rajasthan.bharat (in hindi ) and a messenger carrier through Rajcop Mobile App. The Policemail on Rajcop App and communication solution has been designed and developed by Jaipur based IT company Data Xgen, brings a fully controlled communication service to the force. Says Sharat Kaviraj, Deputy Inspector General (Communications), Rajasthan Police: “ New and advanced communication systems including email service would bring in efficiency. These solutions would help us in communicating urgent matters to concerned personnel. Our earlier email service was officially controlled and but policemail would be controlled fully by the individual policeman. The entire police force of the state has now been equipped with new communication solutions.” “We have tested the entire process for a couple of months. Today, the Chief Minister officially launched our new communication systems. Policemail would be highly secure as all data will be stored in our own server, hence there would not any threat of data theft or cyber attacks through email,” he added. “The launch of efficient and secure communication systems, powered by XgenPlus, is a testimony to India’s domestic capabilities. XgenPlus provides technology solutions for secure and efficient enterprise email services along with other communication solutions. With the successful launch in Rajasthan today, we are hopeful that the new system can be scaled up across all states for fully controlled, secure and indigenously developed communication solutions,” said Dr. Ajay Data, CEO and Founder, Data Xgen Dr. Data is also Chairman of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group of ICANN- the international internet body. With the policemail, Rajasthan Police has essentially provided official mail IDs (in English and Hindi), which he can opened a desktop or Rajcop App and send messages. Through the message carrier feature, Police personnel can create their own group and include other personnel in that group by their SSO ID and can chat by sharing text, photos, video, etc. A secure group of all district police officials can easily be created. Rajcop App has unique features in terms of security, ease of use and access. Some features are first in the country. Senior officials and IT experts feel that in this digital era, having a secure and fully controlled communications systems developed indigenously would go long way in creating a strong digital infrastructure for the country.

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Re: [UA-discuss] [UA-EAI] [Ext] Re: UA-EAI WG charter
by Diana Arteaga Aug. 25, 2019

Aug. 25, 2019

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Universal Acceptance and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
by Mark Svancarek (CELA) Aug. 25, 2019

Aug. 25, 2019

Dear UASG colleagues, During the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Berlin<https://intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2019> there will be a Dynamic Coalition main session on Day 3 - or Thursday, Nov 28 - which will focus on how work of the 18 different Dynamic Coalitions advances the Sustainable Development Goals<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsustainab…>. The Dynamic Coalition on DNS Issues (DC-DNSI) is anticipating to participate during this main session to advocate for UA-readiness. DC-DNSI members briefly discussed linking UA-readiness with Sustainable Development Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), and specifically the Target 9C<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsustainab…>, namely to "significantly increase access to information and communications technology." The argument we are interested in making is that UA-readiness is a contributory factor of "Infrastructure for Digital Inclusion." The organizing team wants to engage the collective wisdom of this group to test underlying assumptions involved in linking UA-readiness with this SDG, i.e. whether UA-readiness: * is a component or an aspect of "resilient infrastructure," * promotes inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and/or * fosters innovation. Further, would UA-readiness significantly increase access to information and communications technology? SDG 9 "Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation." Target 9C "Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020." Accordingly, we are seeking input on the following questions: 1. Is UA-readiness a component or aspect of "resilient infrastructure"? If yes, how? If no, why not? 2. Does UA-readiness promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization? If yes, how? If no, why not? 3. Does UA-readiness foster innovation? If yes, how? If no, why not? 4. Would UA-readiness significantly increase access to information and communications technology? If yes, how? If no, why not? Please provide, where possible, supporting arguments and illustrations. Feel free to share your thoughts on or off list. If you elect to share them privately with the organizing team (Nik Smith (nsmith(a)verisign.com<mailto:nsmith@verisign.com>), Dennis Tan Tanaka (dtantanaka(a)verisign.com<mailto:dtantanaka@verisign.com>), Melinda Clem (mclem(a)afilias.info<mailto:mclem@afilias.info>) and/or Susan Chalmers (schalmers(a)ntia.gov<mailto:schalmers@ntia.gov>) ) we will share anonymize and summarize the responses with the list to build discussion. Thank you, and please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions. Mark Svancarek

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Some Recommendations in Working Groups
by richard nims Aug. 18, 2019

Aug. 18, 2019

Hello, everyone. Bessie, we all have volunteered to contribute in few working groups, I extant some recommendations in my individual capacity. In today’s environment, standards play a critical role in effective working of any working groups. Thus responsibility for how a standard evolves begins in our working group as-well. I recommend we establish the necessary framework for a sound standardization process. For groups i have applied for i.e. EAI and Technology working group I have below recommendations: *Fundamental Principles of Operation* For the development of standards, openness and due process are mandatory. Openness means that any person who has, or could be reasonably expected to have, a direct and material interest, and who meets the requirements of these procedures has a right to participate by: a) Attending working group meetings b) Becoming a member of the working group c) Expressing a position for chair of working group and its basis, Due process is based upon equity and fair play. The standards development process should strive to have both a balance of interests and not be dominated by any single interest category. *Election of Chair of working group: *The UASG administrative group must get elections done for every working group. The interested members of the working group must file self-nomination or any member of working group should nominate, fundamentally that individual member nominated shall not be on any position in UA administrative group or any other working groups at the same time. Members of the working group should only be allowed to cast the vote and select chair of working group. *Working Group: *Working group member should be individual. Each member is expected to attend meetings. We must record attendance at meetings via teleconferencing and/or electronic means, e.g., Internet conferencing, shall count towards the attendance requirements apart from F2F meeting during ICANN or other events. *Responsibilities of Working Group: * Set goals and deadlines and adhere to them Prioritize work to best serve the group and its goals Get the materials available for community related to working of group Maintain lists of unresolved issues, action items, and assignments. The working group will engage in a fact-finding effort of the perceived problems raised in there space and what are the possible solutions, and what are the pros and cons relating these possible solutions. What activities are actually underway, how extensive are they. The Working Group can circulated surveys to gather facts about the technical and issues raised by services currently being provided in there space. Kind wishes Richard Nims

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Review requested: UASG007 - Introduction to Universal Acceptance
by Sarmad Hussain Aug. 16, 2019

Aug. 16, 2019

Dear All, In its meeting in early 2019, UASG had discussed and decided to undertake a technical review of UASG007 - Introduction to Universal Acceptance. The review has been completed and the updated version of the report is attached. It is being circulated to seek input from the UA community members. Please provide your feedback through this form<https://forms.gle/rxQCSn5qajBDJ7fd8> by 30 August 2019. We will finalize the report based on the feedback received. Regards, Sarmad

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Issue with Slack
by Michael Palage Aug. 14, 2019

Aug. 14, 2019

Hello All, Sorry for my silence recently, however, I was wondering if anyone had any contacts at Slack. I am frequent user of this platform in various settings and I just realized that does not natively support most new gTLD extension. Specifically, while it will auto convert an example.com domain name into a hypertext link it does not do that for various new TLD extensions that I tried. While it is possible to boot strap it by placing an http:// in front of the domain name, it would be nice if all TLDs both new and legacy worked the same way. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Montreal. Best regards, Michael

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Re: [UA-discuss] UA-discuss Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8
by Mauricia Abdol Aug. 11, 2019

Aug. 11, 2019

Great work Sharmad, Thank you, Best Regards, Mauricia On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 14:00, <ua-discuss-request(a)icann.org> wrote: > Send UA-discuss mailing list submissions to > ua-discuss(a)icann.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ua-discuss-request(a)icann.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ua-discuss-owner(a)icann.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of UA-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. UASG working group wiki pages (Sarmad Hussain) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:46:20 +0000 > From: Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain(a)icann.org> > To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> > Subject: [UA-discuss] UASG working group wiki pages > Message-ID: <2996E83E-6E92-4213-8F45-0BF01A6DD437(a)icann.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear all, > > We are in developing wiki pages for sharing the work being undertaken by > the UASG working groups. The meeting notes, meeting recordings and working > documents of UASG working groups are being made available at these wiki > pages. Please see the following and share any feedback. > > > 1. UA Technology WG< > https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-Technology+WG> > 2. UA EAI WG<https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-EAI+WG> > 3. UA Measurement WG< > https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-Measurement+WG> > > Please note that membership of these WGs remains open for the community. > In case you would like to participate, please sign-up here< > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRg7caDnbgEo_r6UnP3s5OvtIMlE9btaM… > >. > > Regards, > Sarmad >

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UASG working group wiki pages
by Sarmad Hussain Aug. 11, 2019

Aug. 11, 2019

Dear all, We are in developing wiki pages for sharing the work being undertaken by the UASG working groups. The meeting notes, meeting recordings and working documents of UASG working groups are being made available at these wiki pages. Please see the following and share any feedback. 1. UA Technology WG<https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-Technology+WG> 2. UA EAI WG<https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-EAI+WG> 3. UA Measurement WG<https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA-Measurement+WG> Please note that membership of these WGs remains open for the community. In case you would like to participate, please sign-up here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRg7caDnbgEo_r6UnP3s5OvtIMlE9btaM…>. Regards, Sarmad

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