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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. 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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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Proposed workshop at the Global IGF 2020
by Roberto Gaetano April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020

Hi all. Please find attached an extract from the submission for a workshop at the Global IGF in Katowice, that I believe could be interesting for the members of this group. Cheers, Roberto

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Suggested topics for a tutorial on Universal Acceptance?
by Jim DeLaHunt April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020

UA Colleagues: My (other) proposal was accepted, and I will be doing a tutorial on Universal Acceptance for the 44th Internationalisation and Unicode Conference <https://www.unicodeconference.org/>, on October 14–16, 2020. I would appreciate suggestions from any of you about what UA topics are effective with this kind of audience. If you have slides or demo scripts which I can re-use, that is even better. Here is what I know about what the Conference expects from me: *Audience*: small, likely 10-40 people in this tutorial, maybe 200-300 people total in the conference. But they are a top-class group of experts in internationalisation, localisation, fonts, and language. Attendees include the architects and implementers of language support from major (US) tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Netflix, as well as expert academics. Some may have designed the specs for IDNs and EAI. They might not know the term "Universal Acceptance" yet (though once we are successful in our UASG efforts, they all will). But once they know the term, they will be 100% in favour. We don't need to spend much effort persuading them. *Purpose*: the tutorials are longer sessions on the first day of the conference. They are intended to take someone who knows the general subject of internationalisation and Unicode, and give them enough background and explanation that they can understand the cutting-edge topics in the remaining conference sessions. *Time*: 90 minutes. *Format*: usually a lecture in a meeting room, with no webcast and no remote participation. Slides projected onto a screen. Most participants will have their own laptops and be comfortable using them, so a participation exercise would be a great way to wake everyone up. However, given the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible the whole conference will shift to video participation from home. Or it might be cancelled altogether. It's really hard to predict. *Possible Topics* * Context: the next one billion Internet users, and universal acceptance * Exercise: give people a list of TLDs, ask them to find out: how may TLDs? How many have xn-- prefix? What is longest TLD? etc. * The five key tasks of Universal Acceptance: Accept, Validate, Store, Process, Display. (Do these really resonate? Do we still talk about them?) * Explain IDNA, how it builds on ASCII-only DNS. U-labels and A-labels. Punycode. * Deep dive on Punycode algorithm, so they really understand how it works (but may not have time for this). * Guidance for making your apps IDNA compatible. How to use UASG test cases to test your app. * DNS Label generation rules (LGR), and using them to build your own policy on naming, avoiding confusables, etc. * Explain EAI, how it uses IDNs, how it builds on ASCII-only addresses. EAI phase 1 vs phase 2. * Deep dive on the specs for EAI support in mail servers, e.g. SMTPUIT8 support. * Issues involved for email providers in implementing EAI in their services. How it touches anti-spam, calendars, etc. * Best practices for Email admins, and doc being prepared by EAI WG. * UA use cases and UASG004. * Case studies: XgenPlus, Coremail, Raseel, Microsoft Office365 & Hotmail, etc. * EAI Training Environment and EAI Test-Bed Server, for hands-on learning (as Abdalmonem Galila reported at ICANN67) * Encourage attendees to register their own EAI email accounts, from XgenPlus etc, and try it out. * What else? Obviously this is way more content than I can fit into 90 minutes. I will need to cut out topics to fit my time. But right now, i am looking for other topics which work well in a tutorial setting, and material which I can re-use. Please send any suggestions to me, on or off the list. I will, of course, be glad to contribute these presentations back to the UASG for re-use. It might be possible to take a video of this tutorial, if the Conference allows it. Then I'd be happy for that to get added to the UASG library also. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada -- --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh(a)jdlh.com http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/) multilingual websites consultant 355-1027 Davie St, Vancouver BC V6E 4L2, Canada Canada mobile +1-604-376-8953

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[FYI, call for proposals]: LocWorld43 Vancouver -- looking ahead [October 2020, Vancouver Canada]
by Jim DeLaHunt April 9, 2020

April 9, 2020

UA Colleagues: Below is a Call for Presentation Proposals announcement from the LocWorld conference, to be held in Vancouver Canada on October 27-29, 2020 (if the pandemic allows, of course). I think this conference is an interesting opportunity to put a Universal Acceptance message in front of an audience that has reason to be receptive, but probably hasn't thought much about non-Latin domain names or email addresses before. Maybe some people on UA-discuss might be interested in proposing presentations. If so, please follow the instructions below to submit them to the conference committee. The deadline is 30 April, 2020. I am happy to offer what advice I can to anyone on UA-discuss who wants to make a proposal. I myself do want to make a proposal. I will start a separate thread on UA-discuss, giving my idea for a presentation and asking for suggestions to make it stronger. It turns out I live in Vancouver, and can easily walk to the conference venue. Thus I will almost certainly attend the conference whether or not I am asked to make a presentation. For those who don't know, LocWorld is a conference for product localisers, translators, and the language industry. The name is short for "Localization World". Multilingual magazine <https://multilingual.com/> is one of the conference producers. LocWorld has a long history. It is one of the top conferences for the language industry. Attendees include the product managers who want their product localised, the translators and localisation specialists who do the localisation, and the tool vendors who sell to the localisation specialists. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: LocWorld43 Vancouver -- looking ahead From: LocWorld <news(a)locworld.com> Reply-To: LocWorld <news(a)locworld.com> To: list+localizationworld(a)jdlh.com Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 18:44:20 +0000 Message-ID: <741d27533912ecf288804ea35.4f645c2b50.20200409184410.f5072cd4f3.33efa836(a)mail217.sea101.rsgsv.net> LocWorld43 Vancouver -- looking ahead There is still time to submit your presentations! View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/locworld/lw43-cfp?e=4f645c2b50> Show What You Know! /Now accepting papers for LocWorld43 Vancouver October 27-29, 2020/ You would like to enter new markets. You study the statistics, analyze your cost of entry, calculate your return on investment. You determine what will be necessary to create a localized presence in those new markets. This is all good. But it is easy to overlook the most crucial part of this whole process. It’s not the markets or countries, it’s not (necessarily) the paying customer. It’s the end-users. Even if you are selling to companies, you are actually creating a product for the end-users: people who work for those companies or, even more removed, their customers. From introductory user interface design to sales and follow up service: how easy have you made it for users? How comfortable are they with you and your offerings? Do they feel welcome when using your site, your product, your support resources? Have you encouraged trust by showing your ability to cater to their needs? We invite you to share what you have learned from your experience with global end-users: how you have successfully engaged them or perhaps the painful lessons learned from failure. Your audience will be eager to learn from you and to share their experiences! Also, we always accept proposals on new trends, general localization and international business; see the submission link <https://locworld.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=741d27533912ecf288804ea…> for all suggested topics. Our board of experts will review and evaluate all submissions. If yours is selected, you will get the opportunity to lead the conversation with the influencers and up-and-comers of the localization industry. We can’t wait to see you there! Get the full details on Engage Global Users proposals and submit your paper today <https://locworld.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=741d27533912ecf288804ea…>! *Proposal submission deadline: April 30, 2020.* Submit your proposal <https://locworld.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=741d27533912ecf288804ea…> LocWorld42 Berlin Update The corona virus pandemic is weighing on us all now – personally and profession<https://locworld.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=741d27533912ecf288804ea…>ally. 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Error in UASG007 document (arabic version)
by Zied BOUZIRI April 9, 2020

April 9, 2020

Hi An error appeared the Arab version of UASG007 (page7), in the example of RTL text in the EAI address. Please see below : [image: image.png] *cordially*, *مع تحياتي* *Zied BOUZIRI*، *زياد بوزيري*

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Universal Acceptance in ICANN's Operating and Financial Plan
by Mark Datysgeld April 9, 2020

April 9, 2020

Everyone, please find below the section on Universal Acceptance coming from the report on "ICANN Organization’s Draft FY21–25 Operating and Financial Plan and Draft FY21 Operating Plan and Budget", which can be found here: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-draft-opplan-bu… Quote: "Remediation of technology means that efforts will be made to update programming languages and frameworks, email tools and services and applications that use them, such as websites, to be Universal Acceptance (UA) ready. As a first step, the technology will be measured for UA readiness. Once the gaps are identified, the remediation will take different forms, including the following: For programming languages and frameworks and for the email tools, an outreach effort will be organized to inform their maintainers of the gaps and need for them to support UA readiness. In addition, training will be organized for software developers and email administrators to highlight the UA readiness gaps in deployment of applications and services (including websites and email services) and how to address them. ICANN org will make a plan for training as suggested. This is already underway in collaboration with the UA Local Initiatives. ICANN org aims to conduct an annual assessment of results through the UA Steering Group's Measurement Working Group, which will feed into annual action plans. With respect to the budget figure, the org team has reviewed past year actuals and future work planned and does not believe the budget figure will negatively impact the work plan for the UA Steering Group. Additionally, this budget figure does not include the full time UA manager being hired within GDD to support the UA work." Regards, -- Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website] In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

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UASG026 - UA Readiness Framework Now Available
by Jane Sexton April 7, 2020

April 7, 2020

Hi All – The UASG just published a new resource for developers: UASG026 – Universal Acceptance Readiness Framework. Please help promote/share if you can. UASG026: https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG026-en-digital.pdf UASG blog: https://uasg.tech/2020/04/new-resource-for-developers-introducing-the-unive… @UASGTech Tweet: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1247569723279065090?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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