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Pale Moon browser
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 6, 2020

May 6, 2020

Hello, This came across my IDN news feed. Pale Moon 28.9.2 “Added a preference to allow copying the unescaped URL from the address bar (especially useful for internationalized domain names and paths).” URL to the article: https://www.neowin.net/news/pale-moon-2892 Is anyone familiar with this browser: market share, user experience, etc? Best, Dennis

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ICANN UA Case Study Translations Now Available
by Jane Sexton May 5, 2020

May 5, 2020

Hi All – Translations of the recently published ICANN UA Case Study are now available<https://uasg.tech/case-studies/>. Please help us share and promote on your channels. * Individual links: English<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_UASG013C…> | Español<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_ver8-es_…> | Français<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_ver8-fr_…> | عربى<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_ver8-ar_…> | 中文<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_ver8-zh_…> | Pусский<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UASG_ICANN_Case_Study_ver8-ru_…> 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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Re: [UA-discuss] Proposed workshop at the Global IGF 2020
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

Hi Roberto, I anticipate the workshop is going to prompt a very interesting conversation. Thanks for championing this initiative. Cheers! Dennis From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano(a)hotmail.com> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 6:21 AM To: "UA-discuss(a)icann.org" <UA-discuss(a)icann.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [UA-discuss] Proposed workshop at the Global IGF 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 _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://secure-web.cisco.com/16B6Ma9Em3RHDpygPrZ0OU1yU6psDjGveQTkOM03Y20PGg…) and the website Terms of Service (https://secure-web.cisco.com/1WqPvL9bXA8PbGbtbkVqN-fDyDV6WMMK1-CHgJMrLgY7TM…) You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

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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. The LocWorld team is well and we hope you are, also. Regarding LocWorld42 in Berlin, we are in negotiations with our conference venue, the InterContinental Berlin, and are forced to wait for further developments in Germany before we can make a definitive announcement. Meanwhile, we are investigating opportunities for a virtual and safely-distant way to get together, network and learn. We promise to let you know more as soon as we can. We ask for your patience and understanding. 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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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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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