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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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Maybe email addresses and URLs might not matter anymore?
by Jim DeLaHunt Sept. 8, 2020

Sept. 8, 2020

UA Colleagues: We spend a lot of time thinking about universal acceptance of email addresses and URLs. We tend to assume that email addresses and URLs are important. But for a lot of information technology users, they aren't. Those users learned to use IT via mobile, rather than via desktop computers. They use all-embracing messaging apps like WeChat, or walled garden social media sites where you find what you want by search. In these environments, email addresses and URLs just don't matter as much as they do in longer-established, and Anglo-centric, IT cultures. Here are an interesting blog post and an interesting news article on the topic: /In China, email addresses are irrelevant/ • July 28, 2020 by John Yunker, blog post <https://globalbydesign.com/2020/07/28/in-china-email-addresses-are-irreleva…> /Why email loses out to popular apps in Chin//a/ • 9th July 2020 by Lu-Hai Liang, BBC <https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200707-why-email-loses-out-to-popula…> I think a useful response to this might be to keep asking ourselves, how do people communicate in preference to emails? How do people find things in preference to typing in URLs? Then investigating those methods for Universal Acceptance as well. 'In Anglo-centric countries such as the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, email retains the etiquette of an analogue age. The “Dear X” greetings and formal sign-offs – “Best regards” – and so on, reveal vestigial ties to letter writing.' As I do in this email message. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, 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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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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FYI: Centre for Curriculum Internationalisation
by André Schappo July 30, 2020

July 30, 2020

FYI: Centre for Curriculum Internationalisation (CCI) The CCI has an open forum for discussion of internationalisation of University Curricula groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cicin <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cicin> I am a member of this list and I occasionally post to this forum on topics concerning Computer Science Internationalisation, of which IDNs and EAI are a subset. My latest post to this forum is about IDNs groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cicin/kub5tkVVC-I <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cicin/kub5tkVVC-I> This is part of my ongoing endeavours to raise awareness of Computer Science Internationalisation, IDNs and EAI in Academia. I hope that sometime in the future, internationalisation will be integral and foundational to the Computer Science curriculum. To my knowledge, I am the only Computer Science academic on this forum, so I frequently wonder how well my posts are received by the forum members ☺️ André Schappo

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Updated UASG Inventory Document
by Jane Sexton July 29, 2020

July 29, 2020

Hi All – Hope everyone is well. Just letting you know that we have updated the UASG inventory document that outlines all of the available UASG resources on uasg.tech. Hope you find this helpful! https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG000-en-digital.pdf 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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there's no unsubscribe
by Brenda Wallace July 29, 2020

July 29, 2020

Can a list admin please fix the unsubscribe instructions? There's is only this message in the message footer: "You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status" but no mailman link above.

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UA Measurement Working Group - Future Projects
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis July 28, 2020

July 28, 2020

All, As a follow up to the publishing of the Draft Action Plan for 2020-2021<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UASG-FY21-Action-Plan-20200721…> the UA Measurement working group wants to provide more detail as to the future projects under work item M2 (“gap analysis”). The UA Measurement working group is primarily tasked with providing the UASG with data analysis on UA-readiness on different technologies. The purpose is to help inform the mitigation or remediation strategies. To this end the working group is pleased to present to you the preliminary project prioritization for fiscal year 2020-2021. We ranked these projects based on an “impact” scale (more on this, here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uZENuWMzAcbOxxnhm2fYnU8TAh9sbS2j5qEaWI3…>), which is a subjective measure of a combination of i) how far or close the application is to the end-user experience, ii) the scale of users of said application, and ii) whether the application is a major blocker to UA (i.e. critical path). The prioritization is shown in the below table, followed by a more detailed explanation about each item. The projects or items are ordered from high to low priority. Grouping Work Item End-User Impact Score Confidence Level of Completing within Fiscal Year Group 1 Social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Wechat, Whatsapp, etc.) 14.0 Very High 86% - 100% Browsers: Worldwide and selected markets (e.g. China, Russian Federation, other?) 13.5 Group 2 Websites: augment with email acceptance analysis (i.e. reasons for not-acceptance, test transport of email), and purpose break down (e.g. e-commerce, media, etc.) 11.0 High 56% - 85% Second phase of Content Management Systems (CMS). This project is contingent to reviewing the results of phase 1 (tentatively Q1 2021) 11.0 OS authentication in Device (e.g. apple ID) 10.0 Group 3 Research impact on UA about usage of authentication APIs (e.g. Login with Facebook, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1hCgImyEvWRAd8Jx_UyNXiRRLia1aHKYpCTVo3-jaTPMJF…> 8.0 Low 36% - 55% Second phase open-source applications. This project is contingent to reviewing the results of phase 1 (tentatively Q4 2020) 7.0 Group 4 Certificates 4.0 Very Low 0% - 35% Common operating system utilities 3.0 I.Group 1: a. Social media applications: primarily, the working group will be looking at linkification and acceptance of email address in these platforms. We will select a number of applications, including Facebook, Whatsapp, Wechat, etc. b. Browsers: the working group will build upon previous work – UASG016 – to update the gap analysis, but also introduce some other relevant players in the space. The selection of browsers will be based on market share, globally and a from a few selected territories e.g. China, Russian Federation. II.Group 2: a. Websites: This project will update and augment previous work – UASG017 and UASG025 – to determine the reasons for not accepting a type of email address and to test the actual delivery of an email using any type of email address. We may also introduce industry-specific test case for certain type of websites e.g. e-commerce. b. Content Management System, Phase 2: This project will build upon phase 1 of the CMS study. The working group will apply lessons learned from phase 1 and expand the gap analysis to a wider suite of applications e.g. website builders and other self-hosted solutions. c. OS authentication in device: the working group will look at the mobile device onboarding process and its acceptance of a wide variety of email addresses. III.Group 3: a. Research impact of authentication APIs: Have you noticed that internet applications offer a quicker way to sign-up for their services using e.g. your Facebook or Google login information? The working group will explore some of these services and test its universal acceptance readiness. b. Open-source application, Phase 2: This project will build upon phase 1 of UA-readiness of applications in open-source code. IV.Group 4: a. Certificates: Are website certificates ua-ready? The working group would look at the creation process and test UA-readiness. b. Common operating system utilities: This project wants to look at certain operating system utilities and determine if they accept UTF (i.e. unrestricted Unicode) as a valid input. To ease the project planning we grouped projects with similar scores. Group 1 and Group 2 have a higher chance to be completed during the fiscal year. Group 3 and Group 4 aren’t likely to be initiated this year. This is just a reflection of the working group resources. We will evaluate the remaining projects in the next year in addition to new project requests. We would like to request your feedback (e.g. need clarification, add a project, remove a project, etc.) to the preliminary prioritization list by no later than July 31st 2020. If you have any question please let us know via email to ua-measurement(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-measurement@icann.org> Thank you, Dennis, on behalf the UA-Measurement WG.

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New UA Ambassadors Social Media Campaign and Blog Translations
by Jane Sexton July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Hi All – Hope everyone is doing well. We are excited to share that we have kicked off a “Get to Know the UA Ambassadors” series on UASG social media channels. These posts (published every Tuesday) will highlight a different UA Ambassador and provide a quote to offer more insight into why they joined the program, what they look to accomplish, and why they care about UA/EAI. Here are today’s first posts highlighting new UA Ambassador Mark Elkins from South Africa: * Twitter<https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1285614412045459457?s=20> * Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/uasgtech/posts/3140554079368452> * LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6691388925065461760> We have also published translations of the most recent UASG blog announcing six new UA Ambassadors (the Hindi translation will eventually be added). You can view them here: https://bit.ly/3ehiVBl<https://t.co/FneZirlzYV?amp=1>. If you can, please help share and promote this new campaign through your social channels and networks. 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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UASG's FY21 Action Plan - Request for Community Feedback
by Sarmad Hussain July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Dear UASG members, Please find attached UASG’s Draft FY21 Action Plan for your review and feedback. The plan is also posted at UASG.tech website. This Draft Action Plan has been compiled based on the discussions over past several weeks by the UASG working groups (WGs) on the tasks they would like to prioritize. This input from the WGs was collated and presented during ICANN68 Prep Week<https://68.schedule.icann.org/meetings/sXAi7JXbi4SQPKo2K#/?limit=10&sortByF…>. We would request you to please review the draft plan and provide your input through the online form<https://forms.gle/1sqsAbcsJtgQTQ92A> by 31 July 2020. UASG’s FY21 Action Plan will be finalized based on the feedback received. We look forward to your comments and feedback. Regards, Sarmad

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Unified calendar
by Mark W. Datysgeld July 18, 2020

July 18, 2020

Hello all, could we have a unified calendar for all key UA meetings, WG and special ones, over at Google Calendars? Just simple and clean, that we can integrate with our own calendars if we want and know at a glance what is going on in the project. No need for anything fancy or overdesigned. Anybody else? -- 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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