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Call for Participation Reminder! - 44th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 14-16, 2020
by Jim DeLaHunt March 9, 2021

March 9, 2021

Hello, UA Colleagues: I want to be sure this group sees the call for participation for the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, which takes place this October 14-16, 2020, in Santa Clara, California, USA. Do you want to propose a talk? If so, the deadline is this Friday, March 6, in the UTC-8 timezone. Many of you know the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference. For those who don't, it is a gathering of those who define The Unicode Standard for text, as well as architects of fonts, text rendering, and beyond that into software engineering aspects of internationalisation and localisation. About 100% of the audience are solidly in favour of the values and goals of Universal Acceptance. However, much fewer than 100% know what the Universal Acceptance Group does, and what the current successes and obstacles are. I think Universal Acceptance should not be absent from this conference. If anyone has questions about this conference, I have been attending for many years, and I would be happy to answer them. Others on this list are probably even more expert than I am. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada -------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:29:05 -0500 Message-Id: <202002202129.01KLT5NP015843(a)aquamarine.omg.org> From: Unicode Conference <programs(a)unicodeconference.org> Subject: Call for Participation Reminder! - 44th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 14-16, 2020 IUC 44 Conference To see this message in your browser click *here <https://www.unicodeconference.org/e-marketing/IUC44-CfPReminder-02-20-20.htm>* Internationalization & Unicode Conference 44. October 14-16, 2020 - Santa Clara, CA U.S.A. *2 Weeks Left To Submit your Proposals For IUC 44!* The IUC 44 Program Committee invites you to submit your session, tutorial, or panel abstracts for the 44th Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 44) in Santa Clara, California, October 14-16, 2020. 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. Be a leader. Direct the future of multilingual text and software internationalization! Submission types could include case studies, best practices, innovative technology, or evolving standards, to name a few. In addition, understanding the design of a development platform is often critical to implementing best practices in applications. The Internationalization and Unicode Conference seeks to offer technical tutorials on the internationalization capabilities and architecture of development platforms, including Mobile, Desktop, Cloud, and Virtual Operating Systems, Social Network Platforms, and Machine Translation and Machine Learning Systems. Please submit your proposals for presentations or tutorials by Friday, March 6, 2020. Submit Now! <https://www.unicodeconference.org/call-for-participation.htm> * *The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, April 3, 2020. Speaker agreements and materials such as photos, bios and final presentation abstracts will be required from selected presenters by Friday, April 17, 2020. Tutorial Presenters receive complimentary conference registration, and two nights lodging, while Session Presenters receive a fifty percent conference discount and two nights lodging. Please visit our website to view examples of content from past conferences <https://www.unicodeconference.org/past-conferences.htm>. GOLD SPONSORS: Adobe <https://www.unicodeconference.org/adobe-banner> Google <https://fonts.google.com/> MEDIA SPONSOR: Multilingual <https://www.unicodeconference.org/ml-banner/> *About The Unicode Consortium* The Unicode®Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of India, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural Language Technology Research, The University of California (Berkeley), The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members. For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium <https://www.unicode.org/contacts.html>. *About the Event Producer* OMG <https://www.omg.org>® is the Event Producer for the Internationalization & Unicode Conferences. OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. OMG has offices at 109 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA 02494 USA. 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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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ICANN's CZDS is not fully UA ready
by Maxim Alzoba March 31, 2020

March 31, 2020

Hello All, To my surprise, CZDS service of ICANN does not allow to search TLD names in IDN, like to request access to .москва you need to type in xn--80adxhks. (and, quite misleading, when you start adding Russian Cyrillic letters, it shows nothing, while adding U-label shows the same TLD) I think this should be fixed. P.s: it is bit sad, by my GNSO Council and RySG obligations do not allow me to fully participate in UA, but I try to ensure that the UA is in top proprieties of the organization and it goes through all my efforts. Sincerely Yours, Maxim Alzoba Special projects manager, International Relations Department, FAITID skype oldfrogger Current UTC offset: +3.00 (.Moscow)

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ICANN UA Case Study Published
by Jane Sexton March 31, 2020

March 31, 2020

Hi All – The UASG and ICANN org worked together to publish a case study outlining the org’s ongoing efforts to become UA-ready. The case study also shares best practices and explains the three stages ICANN used to update its systems. ICANN’s Chief Information Officer, along with its Front Office Relationship and Delivery and Software Engineering groups, have now updated all internal and custom services to be UA-ready, where possible. We are excited to share this case study and accompanying ICANN org blog with the community. Please help share and promote on your channels if possible. Case Study: https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_UASG013C… ICANN Blog: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/becoming-ua-ready-icann-update @ICANN Tweet: https://twitter.com/ICANN/status/1244675525576196096?s=20 @UASGTech Tweet: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1244676404509175813?s=20 Thanks, Jane -- Jane Sexton Communications Coordinator, Global Domains Division Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 310 570 7293 Slack: jane.sexton www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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FW: [whatwg/url] DNS (and other naming systems) vs the host parser (#397)
by Larry Masinter March 28, 2020

March 28, 2020

Some ambiguity in what is or isn’t allowed seems to be a problem for Universal Acceptance, no? From: Anne van Kesteren <notifications(a)github.com> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 7:30 AM To: whatwg/url <url(a)noreply.github.com> Cc: Subscribed <subscribed(a)noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [whatwg/url] DNS (and other naming systems) vs the host parser (#397) A way out here mentioned in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184059#c29 might be that we have a separate "DNS domain" definition which is effectively a further validation on the output of the host parser (if it is a domain) that allows * what https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034 as modified by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#section-2 allows * underscores * hyphens in more places? As this definition is mainly needed by various networking standards, it doesn't necessarily have to live in the URL Standard. Fetch could be a place, but perhaps filing some issues against the relevant standards that have a dependency on the "broken" concept could also result in some action. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/397#issuecomment-605031328> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAIQTK6DCK7SHV2YX5RMSX3RJ…> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AAIQTK4SSJA27VS3OCLKJ3DRJSZ5BA5CNFS…>

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Fwd: [UA-Coordination] Call for proposals for SOW on Email Tools and Definitions
by Dr. Ajay Data March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

Hello everyone Here are some opportunities for you to support UA. Thanks Ajay -------- Original Message -------- From: Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain(a)icann.org> Sent: March 26, 2020 6:41:13 PM GMT+05:30 To: "ua-coordination(a)icann.org" <ua-coordination(a)icann.org> Subject: [UA-Coordination] Call for proposals for SOW on Email Tools and Definitions Dear all, Hope all of you are doing well and keeping safe. Based on the statement of work (SOW) on Email Tools and Definitions developed by UA EAI WG, the call for proposals has been posted at the UASG SOW wiki page<https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA+Statements+of+Work>. Proposals should be sent to UAProgram(a)icann.org<mailto:UAProgram@icann.org> by 15 April. Please feel free to share further with others relevant. Regards, Sarmad -- Sent from my Android device with XGen Email.

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UA Ambassador Blog Translations Now Available
by Jane Sexton March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

Hi All – The recent UA Ambassador blog on uasg.tech is now available in English, Español, Français, عربى, 中文, Português, Pусский, and हिंदी. You can view the translations here: https://uasg.tech/2020/02/internet4all-around-the-globe-in-2019-a-recap-of-… Please share/promote on social if you can: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1243593567332749312?s=20 Best, Jane -- Jane Sexton Communications Coordinator, Global Domains Division Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 310 570 7293 Slack: jane.sexton www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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Hope for safety and healthy.
by Ajay Data March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020

Dear Colleagues, How are you during this difficult time? How are your colleagues and business doing? Indian is under lock down for 21 days ending on 14th April. Don’t know how much it will extend. We are 1.3 billion people around 700 Corona positive cases as of now. Is there anything we can do to help each other or something to learn from each other ? Stay healthy and safe. Social Distance is the key. Best wishes. Dr Ajay Data

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Government to open booking of website name in 9 Indian languages including Oriya & Kannada from Mar 16
by Tarun Taunk March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

Dear Friends Please find the story covered on IT Voice https://bit.ly/33lMNrM Regards Tarun Taunk

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Historic ICANN67 and Update
by Dr Ajay Data March 14, 2020

March 14, 2020

Hello Everyone, We just completed historic ICANN67. ICANN67 must have been one of the largest online conference in the world. It takes a lot to organise such a massive conference in a very short period of time. I must congratulate Board and ICANN Org team to organise this event successfully. This has not only given lots of lessons to learn but also gave satisfaction of our capabilities to achieve very difficult goals . Fantastic team effort. Congratulations to entire ICANN team for this huge mile stone.Last year in March you elected the UA leadership and we have been working hard to work within the guidelines provided in charter to achieve the mission of Universal Acceptance - All domain names and all email addresses work in all software applications . Thank you for your trust and faith to give this responsibility and I feel its my duty to give you some important recap and updates which has been achieved during the year. UASG Leadership (see details) Chair: Ajay Data Vice-Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka Vice Chair: Dusan Stojicevic Vice Chair: Mark Svancarek UASG working groups and their chairs (join UASG WGs) UA Technology WG &ndash Chair: Satish Babu, Vice-Chair: Dessalegn Yehuala UA Email Address Internationalization WG &ndash Chair: Mark Svancarek, Vice-Chair: T. Santhosh UA Measurement WG &ndash Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka UA Communications WG &ndash Chair: Rahul Gosain, Vice-Chair: Lilian Ivette UA Local Initiatives WG &ndash Chair: Ajay Datai. Commonwealth of Independent States and Easter Europe &ndash Chair Maria Kolesnikova Work completed or under-progress based on the FY20 Action Plan (T = Technology E = EAI M = Measurement C = Communications L = Local Initiatives) T1 - Define UA Readiness (UASG026) T6 - Determine the evaluation criteria for choosing Frameworks and Programming Languages T7 - Review and Revised Existing Programming Language Evaluation Criteria T9 - Execute review for 20 most popular Open Source Programming Language Libraries and utilities. Identification done by the Technology Working Group T11 - Identify and sponsor suitable Hackathons to get Internet Infrastructure applications made UA Ready. T13 - Develop Training Materials for technology training for UA Readiness T15 - Participate in the development of Communications and Training Material, Presentations, etc . E1 - Oversee the review or development of training material for EAI E2 - Oversee the EAI Evaluation Efforts E4 - Experience EAI with Free email accounts M1 - Create measures for assessing the UA &amp EAI Readiness of the Internet M4 - Evaluate the UA Readiness of different genres of applications &minusEmail, Programming Languages and Frameworks, Ecommerce Platforms M5 - Evaluation of UA Readiness of popular Websites (Global and Targeted Geographies) C5 - Prepare at least six Case Studies on different types of organizations who have pursued Universal Acceptance. C7 - Oversee the regular review of all UASG published documents and research reports. Update as appropriate C8 - Review the content and structure of the UASG.tech website on an annual basis C9 - Fund hosting and maintenance of the UASG website C11 - Produce materials (printing, design) C12 - Organize Strategic Communications Partner C14 -Provide support and encouragement for Global and Regional IGFs and Schools of Internet Governance (Participated in IGF, also with DC-DNSI) C15 - Organize regular meetings of the UA Ambassadors C17 - The UASG to maintain a social media presence C19 - Leveraging ICANN&rsquos Global communications team, the UASG will look to have at least 6 media messages, for each region, each year C20 - Translation of content, including relevant reports and case studies, in languages identified L1 - Procure a local facilitator L2 - Organize face-to-face meeting of the local coordination/advisory group L4 - Get UA Topics included in local fora and publications UA Ambassadors (see details) Yazid Akanho, Benin Harish Chowdhary, India Mark W. Datysgeld, Brazil Abdalmonem Galila, Egypt John Levine, USA Zhijiang Liu, China Yangyi Wu (Walter Wu), China Xiucheng Wu (Marvin Woo), China Recent Statements of Work developed by WGs (posted here) UA Readiness Evaluation of Programming Languages and Development Frameworks Evaluation of Email Software and Services which Announce EAI Support UA-Readiness of Open-Source Code (Pilot) FY20 Action Plan with budget Website and contacts: https://uasg.tech UASG: info(a)uasg.tech UA at ICANN: UAProgram(a)icann.org Test your email here for EAI support Log a UA related issue here Effective cross-functional collaboration is an essential element for success of UASG mission. Specific support particularly from At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and LACRALO is being provided along with ICANN org functions including Communications, Global Stakeholder Engagement, and Government Engagement are helping to raise awareness of UA . My presentation during ICANN67 to update the community also covered some of the above and as everyone could not join the online meeting, above is the update for your knowledge. In last one year we have made some significant decisions and progress. We wished more however we are fully charged up to accomplish many goals and make some visible and impactful progress in the days to come. Best Wishes Dr. Ajay DataChair - UASG [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20200313215015336[-HID]

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UA related sessions at ICANN67
by Sarmad Hussain March 8, 2020

March 8, 2020

Dear All, Kindly note the following UA sessions are scheduled for ICANN67: * UA: Technology and Internationalized Email WGs<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> Monday 1045-1215, 9 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> * UA: Local Initiative and Ambassador WGs <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152577> Wednesday 1045-1215, 11 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152577> * UA: Communications and Coordination WGs <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152580> Thursday 1045-1215, 12 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152580> (all times are reflected in UTC-5 timezone). We hope many of you will be able to join. Regards, Sarmad

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