July 2022 - UA-discuss - lists.iana.org

Published UASG040 Standards and Best Practices
by Seda Akbulut Oct. 4, 2022

Oct. 4, 2022

Dear all, Governance Primer, directed by Mark W. Datysgeld, have prepared an important study based on the SOW that UA Tech WG developed. We believe that UASG community can benefit from this work for advancing UA-readiness. This study has now been published as UASG040 here: https://uasg.tech/download/uasg-040-ua-readiness-evaluation-of-standards-an… Please find the attachments here: CSV: https://uasg.tech/download/uasg-040b-ua-readiness-evaluation-of-standards-a… XLS: https://uasg.tech/download/uasg-040a-ua-readiness-evaluation-of-standards-a… Enjoy reading and please feel free to share within your network. Best regards, Seda

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ICANN76 Fellowship Application Round Now Open
by Bomi Choi July 21, 2022

July 21, 2022

Dear All, The ICANN76 fellowship application round is now open, and remains so until19 August 2022, 23:59 UTC. ICANN76 is slated to take place in Cancun, Mexico on 11-16 March 2023 in a hybrid format. More athttps://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann76-fellowship-applica…. Thank you, Bomi Choi

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Call for participation: UASG advisory team for UA in academic curriculum
by Sarmad Hussain July 17, 2022

July 17, 2022

Dear UASG Members, UA Measurement WG and UA Tech WG have included plans to include UA in CS/IT curriculum in FY23 Action Plan. As the UA Measurement WG started looking into developing recommendations for technically implementing UA in the CS/IT curriculum, the WG members concluded that it is a broader topic which can benefit from input from other UASG members, especially those who are more directly involved in academia or technical training. Therefore, UA Measurement WG has suggested to form a small advisory team which can oversee and guide this work, seeking volunteers from the broader UASG community. The work would likely take 6-8 months with regular fortnightly meetings at least in the first and last couple of months as well as regular 1-2 hour weekly work over email. The eventual deliverables this advisory team will be guiding will include identification of modules, module course outlines, module course materials as well as recommendations on how to disseminate these materials for adoption into CS/IT curricula. If you are interested in contributing to this effort, kindly let us know by either responding to this email or emailing your interest to info(a)uasg.tech<mailto:info@uasg.tech> by 25 July. Thank you for considering to contribute. Regards, Sarmad

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Request for feedback: UASG's FY23 Action Plan
by Sarmad Hussain July 8, 2022

July 8, 2022

Dear UASG members, Over the past few months, each of the UASG working groups has developed a work plan for the next year. Input from each working group was collated and reviewed by the UASG Leadership team to develop a Draft FY23 Action Plan, which incrementally builds on FY22 Action Plan. The Draft FY23 Action Plan<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/UASG-FY23-Action-Plan.pdf> is now published at https://uasg.tech. Kindly review the action plan and provide your feedback through the webform<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScT32H6TjxOR1a_k7qkhoHMQQhNWy3w3Uf…> by 12 July 2022. After 12 July, UASG leadership team will take into account the input received and finalize the FY23 Action Plan. The final action plan will then be published at https://uasg.tech. We look forward to your feedback. Regards, Sarmad (on behalf of UASG Leadership team)

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Important UA milestone for Apple platforms (iOS, MacOSX, TvOS, WatchOS)
by Marc Blanchet July 7, 2022

July 7, 2022

We have found while testing the Apple SDK and environments that support was “pretty limited”… It has now been implemented directly in Swift in the WebURL underlying framework, so as soon as it is integrated in the next releases of those platforms, all applications will get it “free”. A bit late, but since it has been done in the core, then it encompasses “everything”. Regards, Marc. ========= https://forums.swift.org/t/weburl-now-supports-unicode-domain-names-idna/57… <https://forums.swift.org/t/weburl-now-supports-unicode-domain-names-idna/57…> "I'm happy to announce that I just merged support for Unicode domain names (IDNA) in WebURL. It's available right now 16 <https://github.com/karwa/swift-url>, on the main branch, and it's a big milestone for a lot of reasons. Note: IDNA support is on main. There will be a release in the ~next few weeks which includes it, but for now you should use a branch-based dependency for IDNA. With this post, I'd like to discuss what IDNA is, why you should support it, how WebURL supports it, and why I think that's such a big deal. …”

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