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Re: [UA-discuss] More from Ram Mohan on ICANN´s further commitment to Universal Acceptance
by Nitin Walia Dec. 21, 2018

Dec. 21, 2018

Its a great that ICANN is adding UA to the responsibilities of its Board IDN/UA Working Group . Warm Regards Nitin Walia नितिन वालिया Director निदेशक Data Xgen Technologies डाटा एक्सजेन टेक्नोलॉजीज Email: nitin(a)xgenplus.com नितिन(a)xn--v1bmv2ck2cxbe5k8bf.xn--h2brj9c Web: www.xgenplus.com एक्सजेनप्लस.भारत Mobile I whatsapp: +919828025000 Skype id - n_walia From: Don Hollander MailId : [87322442]To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" Subject: [UA-discuss] More from Ram Mohan on ICANN&acutes further commitment to Universal AcceptanceDate: 20 Dec 2018 02:39:22 PM https://uasg.tech/2018/12/icann-further-commits-to-universal-acceptance-of-… Don Hollander Secretary General &ndash UASG Skype: Don_Hollander Do not Remove:[HID]20181220143922742[-HID] [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER]

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Suggestion Email validation library to support IEA
by SUHAYB ALGHUTAYMIL Dec. 10, 2018

Dec. 10, 2018

Dear all, I have a suggestion to UASG that might help to improve IEA adoption in software applications like (web apps, mobile apps) Software developers nowadays depend on open source packages or libraries either to use it directly or use it as a reference to rewrite it in other programming languages. Some developers write their own regular expression(regex) to validate email which usually does not support IDN emails since a regex that supports IEA will be too complex and hard to write and debug. A standard library that has a function like validateEmail() eases the support for IEA in web and mobile apps development. I wish the UASG considers contacting open source software vendors like (Microsoft,php.net or openjdk.java.net .. etc.) to include email validation in their standard libraries or to sponsor an existing library to be the official email validation library and be the reference implementation for other software developers. With best regards, Suhayb Alghutaymil SaudiNIC

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Re: [UA-discuss] Suggestion Email validation library to support IEA
by Dr Ajay Data Dec. 10, 2018

Dec. 10, 2018

Along with when John has shared, https://github.com/data-xgenplus/EmailAddressValidator This has sample JAVA code too.. Dr. Ajay DATA | Founder &amp CEO Get email id like अजय(a)xn--c2bd1gb.xn--h2brj9c in your own language,visit www.xgenplus.com From: SUHAYB ALGHUTAYMIL MailId : [87054723]To: UA-discuss Subject: [UA-discuss] Suggestion Email validation library to support IEADate: 09 Dec 2018 11:27:01 AM Dear all, I have a suggestion to UASG that might help to improve IEA adoption in software applications like (web apps, mobile apps) Software developers nowadays depend on open source packages or libraries either to use it directly or use it as a reference to rewrite it in other programming languages. Some developers write their own regular expression(regex) to validate email which usually does not support IDN emails since a regex that supports IEA will be too complex and hard to write and debug . A standard library that has a function like validateEmail() eases the support for IEA in web and mobile apps development . I wish the UASG considers contacting open source software vendors like (Microsoft,php.net or openjdk.java.net . etc.) to include email validation in their standard libraries or to sponsor an existing library to be the official email validation library and be the reference implementation for other software developers. With best regards, Suhayb Alghutaymil SaudiNIC Do not Remove:[HID]2018120911270183[-HID] [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER]

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Fun with linkification
by Mark Svancarek (CELA) Dec. 7, 2018

Dec. 7, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/nation/2018/12/05/rudy-giulianis-typ…

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Internationalisation of Computer Science/IT
by Andre Schappo Nov. 26, 2018

Nov. 26, 2018

All, Dmitrii Дмитрий is one of my final year project students. His project is to develop a set of internationalised Computer Science/IT exercises. Similar to the internationalised programming challenges I made public sometime ago jsfiddle.net/user/coas/fiddles<http://jsfiddle.net/user/coas/fiddles> One of the requirements of his programme, Information Technology Management for Business, is that he must have a client. There is not too much work involved for the client. The client can be from Industry or Academia. Client participation includes: ① discussing the project with the student ② making suggestions ③ giving feedback Communication with the student can be via email and maybe also via remote video conferencing. Would anyone be willing to be a client for this student project? Thank you André Schappo

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vertical links
by Andre Schappo Nov. 20, 2018

Nov. 20, 2018

I had not thought about this before but earlier today I wondered if a link could be written vertically. I did some experimentation with TextEdit on OSX and yes it can be written vertically as a clickable link. In my original TextEdit document the link is highlighted and underlined as a clickable link. When I saved as PDF it loses the highlighting and underlining but is still a clickable link. I attach the PDF. Will do some more experimentation another time André Schappo

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Where should IDN translation happen?
by Michael Casadevall Nov. 15, 2018

Nov. 15, 2018

So, here is a question for the list: Where in the stack should IDN/EAI translation happen? Should it happen in the user application, or lower in the stack such as the core libraries that handle things like TLS connections? The reason I ask is that I once managed to blow up Python connecting to a IDN website with 10 line program (https://gist.github.com/NCommander/04e34b3fcc4af347bcfedbc053b08c06 - with error output) trying to use the built in ssl library to connect to an IDN website. I’ve filed a bug with Python upstream (https://bugs.python.org/issue35234) but I think it raises a larger question. Python’s import ssl library is a fairly thin wrapper over OpenSSL which is what started this investigation. During an earlier conversation on this list, and during ICANN63, I began to have concerns about the health of WebPKI in relation to internationalized domain names, and I spoke to Don on investigating these issues more in-depth. As a follow up to that conversation, I began poking OpenSSL with a stick, and found much to my surprise, it has absolutely no support for IDN* or EAIs: See https://gist.github.com/NCommander/d68f66f74ba0122f8bb4567ca10a6a40 for an example This leads library makers and applications to handle IDNs manually, which in the case of Python, if they made a mistake can lead to the above error, namely blowing up Python. Now, in practice, OpenSSL not directly supporting IDNs seems to have relatively little effect on its own. After taking a very deep dive through the RFCs, it appears that in all relevant places, everything relating to web TLS certificates takes EAI5Address encoding and thus requires punycode representation. However, as I’ve just shown, there are obviously places where things have fallen through the cracks and I think it warrants a deeper investigation. The thing is though, and just to reiterate the question, just where in the stack should IDN translation happen? In the above case, had OpenSSL supported IDNs directly, it would have prevented this bug in the first place. That being said, since TLS essentially only uses A-labels as far as I can tell, I can’t necessarily say it’s wrong that OpenSSL doesn’t support IDNs. I think, though, this is an area which, in general, that needs more attention, especially if I can break a popular programming language with a trivial example. Thoughts and comments welcome, Michael * - there is one special case for wildcards

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Re: [UA-discuss] Universal Acceptance Thought Leader by UASG
by Ashish Modi Nov. 14, 2018

Nov. 14, 2018

+1 Regards, AM From: Roberto Gaetano MailId : [86274937]To: Ashish Modi Cc: Universal Acceptance Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Universal Acceptance Thought Leader by UASGDate: 14 Nov 2018 04:39:56 PM UA is one of the subjects touched upon in many sessions here at the IGF in Paris . I will do my best to diffuse . R On 14.11.2018, at 10:51, Ashish Modi ashishmodi(a)xgenplus.com> wrote: Hello Everyone, Universal Acceptance Steering Group ( uasg.tech ) recognized the initiative and leadership of Chief Minister of Rajasthan State Smt. Vasundhara Raje for providing free email address in the choice of the citizen`s language i.e Hindi/English. More than 4 million users have been enabled with EAI address through RajMail project. Universal Acceptance Thought Leader recognition was given by UASG to her for the visionary initiative to provide EAI free to every citizen of the state. The news link below is for details. https://www.itvoice.in/index.php/it-voice-news/smt-vasundhara-raje-honble-c… https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/uasg-confers-universa… This may please be shared in other group to motivate other stake holders/Governments to see this as case study. Regards, Ashish UA Ambassador to India [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20181114140719759[-HID]

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Universal Acceptance Thought Leader by UASG
by Ashish Modi Nov. 14, 2018

Nov. 14, 2018

Hello Everyone, Universal Acceptance Steering Group ( uasg.tech ) recognized the initiative and leadership of Chief Minister of Rajasthan State Smt. Vasundhara Raje for providing free email address in the choice of the citizen`s language i.e Hindi/English. More than 4 million users have been enabled with EAI address through RajMail project. Universal Acceptance Thought Leader recognition was given by UASG to her for the visionary initiative to provide EAI free to every citizen of the state.The news link below is for details.https://www.itvoice.in/index.php/it-voice-news/smt-vasundhara-raje-… may please be shared in other group to motivate other stake holders/Governments to see this as case study. Regards,AshishUA Ambassador to India [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20181114140719759[-HID]

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Results: Pilot LinkedIn Campaign
by Don Hollander Nov. 13, 2018

Nov. 13, 2018

As discussed during the UASG Meeting in Barcelona, please find this report on our Pilot LinkedIN campaign. Don Hollander Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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