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UA @ APRALO
by Don Hollander March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

The APRALO is organising a webinar later today Tuesday @ 05:00 UTC to introduce UA & EAI to their community. Details can be found at https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58727895 It’s an open call, so participate if you find the time and interest. Don

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Help Wanted - Technical Editor
by Don Hollander March 17, 2016

March 17, 2016

Please find attached a Help Wanted note for a copy editor. Please share it with your respective networks. Thanks. Don

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EAI Addresses for Testing
by Mark Svancarek March 16, 2016

March 16, 2016

Here are two addresses for testing. Please send some messages to these addresses, then share back the results. مارك(a)xn--wgbe5cxa.xn--mgberp4a5d4ar<mailto:مارك@رسيل.السعودية> 微软测试(a)xn--blq510jgwa.xn--fiqs8s<mailto:微软测试@互联网.中国> Please tell us your configuration: · OS · Browser version (if you used a browser mail application) · Email application version(if you didn’t use a browser) Also send us the results. Even if it worked perfectly, we need to know. If it failed or has an error, share the error text. If address was changed to punycode, share that also. Thank you for your help achieving Universal Acceptance in the email ecosystem! -Mark Svancarek

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RTL Script Domain Names & Email Addresses
by Andre Schappo March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016

I have given some thought to how to handle/display domain names that are in a right to left script such as Arabic. After some thought and experimentation I think that each label of a domain name should be bidi isolated. Lets take a 2 level domain name: 2ndLevelD.TLD where each label is written in a Right to Left Script. In a Left to Right paragraph/document I want the ordering to be 2ndLevelD.TLD In a Right to Left paragraph/document I want the ordering to be TLD.2ndLevelD Using bidi isolation this can be achieved. In the case of html5 one can use the bidi isolate tag <bdi> So, I now write my domain name in html5 as <bdi>2ndLevelD</bdi>.<bdi>TLD</bdi> I then experimented with the html dir attribute and flipped the whole document between dir="ltr" and dir="rtl" and it gave me the results I wanted as above. I need to think a bit more about the possible permutations of the local part of an email address but if it is a single word then the following works eg <bdi>email</bdi>@<bdi>2ndLevelD</bdi>.<bdi>TLD</bdi> I believe that using bidi isolates leads to easier to comprehend domain names/email addresses for both Left to Right readers and Right to Left readers. So, for example, a Left to Right reader would see a domain name 2ndLevelD.TLD and one can easily comprehend the ordering is from minor to major from Left to Right. The text in each label is though Right to Left André Schappo

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ODG: Re: EAI Addresses for Testing
by Dusan Stojicevic March 13, 2016

March 13, 2016

OS Android version 5.0 Mail client - commingled pre-installed with the OS Result for Arabic email address Resolving bidi issue. Message wasn't sent, because: User part resolved as domain part. Displayed as unicode Domain part resolved as user part, displayed as xn-- ---- Andre Schappo je napisao/la ---- >I was wondering how Mark had got an Arabic email address and decided to find out. I discovered the Raseel project http://رسيل.السعودية/raseel-arabic-email-addresses > > >I gather from the site though that, unfortunately, they are not taking any more requests for Arabic email addresses on their system??? > > >Apart from that the Raseel website is really good as, apart from the url above, the rest of the navigation urls are wholly in Arabic i.e. including the pathname part > > >http://رسيل.السعودية > >http://رسيل.السعودية/لقطات-من-رسيل > >http://رسيل.السعودية/شروط-الخدمة > >...etc... > > >André Schappo > > >On 6 Mar 2016, at 15:30, Mark Svancarek <marksv(a)microsoft.com> wrote: > > > > >Here are two addresses for testing. Please send some messages to these addresses, then share back the results. > > > >مارك(a)xn--wgbe5cxa.xn--mgberp4a5d4ar > > > >微软测试(a)xn--blq510jgwa.xn--fiqs8s > > > >Please tell us your configuration: > >· OS > >· Browser version (if you used a browser mail application) > >· Email application version(if you didn’t use a browser) > > > >Also send us the results. Even if it worked perfectly, we need to know. If it failed or has an error, share the error text. If address was changed to punycode, share that also. > > > >Thank you for your help achieving Universal Acceptance in the email ecosystem! > > > >-Mark Svancarek > > > > >

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UA @ ICANN55
by Don Hollander March 12, 2016

March 12, 2016

Just in case your looking for a paragraph about UA in your ICANN55 report… The Universal Acceptance Steering group provided an update on activities to date and forthcoming. A surprising number of documents have been completed since Dublin, and the main technical document finished its first complete detailed reading on the Sunday. Coming up is an evaluation and mitigation of Programming Languages and Frameworks, Providing some UA Use Cases and landing pages, translation of core documents, and engaging a global PR company. The UASG, a community group supported by ICANN (and others) flipped its execution approach recently with the volunteers becoming more supporters than doers. More details of the documents UASG has published can be found in the Documents page of uasg.tech.

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Help Wanted - Technical Copy Editing
by Don Hollander March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

Dear all: Please see attached a draft Help Wanted add for copy editing services. I would very much welcome your suggestions for improvement no later than the 19th of March. And, if you know people who might find this up their alley, so to speak, please alert them to a pending request for help. Thanks. Don

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Help Wanted - Technical Copy Editing
by Don Hollander March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

Dear all: Please see attached a draft Help Wanted add for copy editing services. I would very much welcome your suggestions for improvement no later than the 19th of March. And, if you know people who might find this up their alley, so to speak, please alert them to a pending request for help. Thanks. Don

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Re: [UA-discuss] RTL Script Domain Names & Email Addresses
by Andre Schappo March 9, 2016

March 9, 2016

Ah! I was not expecting that. Not sure what changes Sys Admin has made Please try the plain http form http://co-project.lboro.ac.uk/users/coas/arabic-email.html André Schappo On 9 Mar 2016, at 16:29, Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda(a)icann.org<mailto:leo.vegoda@icann.org>> wrote: Hi Andre, The page requires a login. Regards, Leo -----Original Message----- From: ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Andre Schappo Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 8:25 AM To: ua-discuss(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] RTL Script Domain Names & Email Addresses Without bidi isolates or any other form of intervention the email address مارك(a)xn--wgbe5cxa.xn--mgberp4a5d4ar wholly displays L⬅︎R I have just created a temporary page to show how the arabic address مارك(a)xn--wgbe5cxa.xn--mgberp4a5d4ar appears in L➡︎R Context & L⬅︎R Context using bidi isolates. https://co-project.lboro.ac.uk/users/coas/arabic-email.html With reference to my page : The L➡︎R Context gives an email address in a structure more familiar to a L➡︎R reader. The structure being, in this case, local-part(a)label.label<mailto:local-part@label.label>. It does not matter which direction a label text is. Each label could have a different direction and again it would not matter. A L➡︎R reader would readily recognise this as an email address. Personally I find it much easier to recognise an email address when written like this. Similarly for the L⬅︎R Context I have used html to illustrate. In a word processing document one would use the Unicode isolates U+2066➡︎2069. It would be the responsibility of the software to automatically implement/insert/apply the bidi isolation for display of the email address to users. There are indeed other cases but I think the same principles outlined above can be applied. André Schappo On 8 Mar 2016, at 18:51, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(a)anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>> wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 06:02:12PM +0000, Andre Schappo wrote: I have given some thought to how to handle/display domain names that are in a right to left script such as Arabic. After some thought and experimentation I think that each label of a domain name should be bidi isolated. That's already the requirement for processing, according to IDNA2008 (that is, IDNA is label by label, not over the domain name). So so far, I agree. I don't have an intuition as to what would be clear to a user; perhaps you have one. But … Lets take a 2 level domain name: 2ndLevelD.TLD where each label is written in a Right to Left Script. … I'm slightly worried about this, because I suspect you're also going to need something that is unsurprising where the different labels are in different directions. I believe that using bidi isolates leads to easier to comprehend domain names/email addresses for both Left to Right readers and Right to Left readers. This is also probably true, but since an awful lot of cases don't include the markup to indicate the bidi isolates, there's still that problem too. This includes (just for instance) email, particularly the headers. So while the mark up helps I'm wondering what to do about other cases. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs(a)anvilwalrusden.com<mailto:ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> 猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴 http://twitter.com/andreschappo http://schappo.blogspot.co.uk http://weibo.com/andreschappo 猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴猴 http://twitter.com/andreschappo http://schappo.blogspot.co.uk http://weibo.com/andreschappo

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UA @ ICANN55 - Wednesday
by Don Hollander March 9, 2016

March 9, 2016

Wednesday Toubkal https://icann.adobeconnect.com/rak55-toubkal 01 09:00 Update on UASG (15 minutes) Ram Mohan 02 09:15 Review of Quick Guides (30 Minutes) Mark Svancarek 03 09:45 Registry/Registrar UA Issue Identification (10 minutes) Rich Merdinger 04 09:55 UA Readiness Update – ICANN IT (10 minutes) Ashwin Rangan 05 10:05 Q&A (10 minutes) Ram Mohan

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