February 2023 - UA-discuss

UASG Elections 2023 - Accepting Nominations
by Seda Akbulut March 4, 2023

March 4, 2023

Dear Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Members, Universal Acceptance Working Group (UASG) is announcing the call for nominations for its leadership positions. Interested candidates should send a self-nomination with a Statement of Interest (SOI) to the email: UAprogram(a)icann.org<mailto:UAprogram@icann.org> before 23:00 UTC on 3 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 31 March 2023 for Vice-Chair position. The SOI should include the following information: 1. Name of the nominee 2. The position contesting for (UASG Chair or UASG Vice-Chair) 3. A short bio of the nominee, covering current position and the company being worked for, relevant UA experience, motivation, expression of interest and any other relevant information. The final list of candidates and their Statements of Interests (SOI) will be published on 6 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 4 April 2023 for Vice-Chair position. Open Positions for Election - One Chair of the UASG - Vice-Chairs of the UASG (up to three positions) The UASG Structure The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is overseen by one chair and two to three vice-Chairs, called the UASG leadership team. The UASG leadership team will be appointed for a two-year term with the possibility of one reappointment, i.e., the chair and vice-chairs can serve for a period of two years and no more than four in each position. For more information about the timeline and self-nominations, please find attached documents. To see the current UASG Administrative Group, visit https://uasg.tech/about/people/. Best Regards, Seda Akbulut Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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End of nontraditional processing
by Asmus Freytag March 2, 2023

March 2, 2023

Just a heads up for whoever is interested: There is a proposal in the works in the Unicode Consortium to deprecate the "deviation" mappings in UTS#46 and to declare the transitional period to be over. This recognizes the fact that some registries are no longer compatible with the deviation mappings and some browsers have stopped supporting them. Four characters are affected, including ß and final sigma. A./

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Milestone update
by Dr. Ajay Data Feb. 28, 2023

Feb. 28, 2023

Hello Everyone The onset of the current year has brought forth auspicious tidings as years of laborious endeavors have culminated in fruitful outcomes. It is with great pleasure that I hereby announce that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India has promulgated a public policy pertaining to Universal Acceptance and Multilingual Internet. The report can be accessed through the link provided below. Policy: https://registry.in/system/files/ua-and-multilingual-internet-india.pdf Please do share this report with your govt and policy makers. As you all are aware that UA Day is going to be held on 28th of March 2023 and global event is also scheduled in Delhi India. To raise awareness we also conducted a roundtable discussion with Startups on 23rd Feb and a seminar on 24th Feb under local initiative of UA in Jaipur, India which was supported by FICCI, IT Voice, NIXI, Rajasthan government & ICANN and UNESCO. This was covered by national and local media very well. I hope you all have blocked your date 28th March and will join UA Day celebration. You will listen for joining details soon. Best wishes. Dr. Ajay Data -- Sent from my Android device with XGen Email.

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ICANN76 UASG Community Update Session
by Seda Akbulut Feb. 27, 2023

Feb. 27, 2023

Dear all, You are cordially invited to the UASG Community update session at ICANN 76 Prep Week on Tuesday 28 February 2023 at 17:00 UTC. Please see the session page for more details and joining the event: https://icann76.sched.com/event/1IfwA/community-update-on-universal-accepta…. Tuesday 28 February 2023 17:00 -18:00 UTC Session Name: Universal Acceptance Community Update We look forward to meeting you. Best regards, Seda Akbulut UA Program Manager Global Domains and Strategy Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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Re: [UA-discuss] UASG Elections 2023 - Accepting Nominations
by Seda Akbulut Feb. 20, 2023

Feb. 20, 2023

Dear all, For your information, here is an additional note about the terms of the current UASG Chair and Vice Chairs: * Dr. Ajay Data, Chair: Completed two two-year terms. * Abdelmonem Galila, Vice Chair: Completed one two-year term. * U. B. Pavanaja, Vice Chair: Completed one two-year term. For further information, please see https://uasg.tech/about/people/. You may also find the general election process posted on https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onw…. Best regards, Seda From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> Reply to: Seda Akbulut <seda.akbulut(a)icann.org> Date: 20 February 2023 Monday 16:31 To: Seda Akbulut via UA-discuss <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] UASG Elections 2023 - Accepting Nominations Dear Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Members, Universal Acceptance Working Group (UASG) is announcing the call for nominations for its leadership positions. Interested candidates should send a self-nomination with a Statement of Interest (SOI) to the email: UAprogram(a)icann.org<mailto:UAprogram@icann.org> before 23:00 UTC on 3 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 31 March 2023 for Vice-Chair position. The SOI should include the following information: 1. Name of the nominee 2. The position contesting for (UASG Chair or UASG Vice-Chair) 3. A short bio of the nominee, covering current position and the company being worked for, relevant UA experience, motivation, expression of interest and any other relevant information. The final list of candidates and their Statements of Interests (SOI) will be published on 6 March 2023 for Chair position, and on 4 April 2023 for Vice-Chair position. Open Positions for Election - One Chair of the UASG - Vice-Chairs of the UASG (up to three positions) The UASG Structure The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is overseen by one chair and two to three vice-Chairs, called the UASG leadership team. The UASG leadership team will be appointed for a two-year term with the possibility of one reappointment, i.e., the chair and vice-chairs can serve for a period of two years and no more than four in each position. For more information about the timeline and self-nominations, please find attached documents. To see the current UASG Administrative Group, visit https://uasg.tech/about/people/ Best Regards, Seda Akbulut Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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