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FYI: This week's UA Coordination Group call, usually set for Wednesday's @ 23:00, has been cancelled.
by Don Hollander Nov. 25, 2015

Nov. 25, 2015

NB: The UA Coordination Group call is usually focused on administrative issues. All are welcome to attend and participate. Don

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Notes from UA M&M Call
by Don Hollander Nov. 24, 2015

Nov. 24, 2015

Please find attached the draft notes from yesterday’s UA M&M Call. Don

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Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability Discussion of My Proposal
by Ron Baione Nov. 23, 2015

Nov. 23, 2015

After taking UA's advice and bringing my wordbanks and celebrities for the visually impaired proposal to a group which was more interested in internet accessibility (not ICANN's one person, inactive accessibility group), the Dynamic Coalition for Accessibility and Disability, after a week or so of discussions, the following is my conclusive observation as I also sent to their group: "My argument on this matter, and on internet governance in general, is that ICANN, the IGF, MAG, ISOC, DCAD, AKIN, etc act like glorified travel agencies. But traveling does not equal leadership. Regardless of how a DC group conducts its democratic discussions on the maiking list, the Chair of a DC group should be spending the majority of time talking to the Secretariat or other higher ups at MAG, the IGF and the UN about gaining more funding, more legal representation, more of everything for the DC, zero time should be spent explaining to the group why something meaningful like the project I proposed cannot get accomplished. I'm no longer participating in this discussion or any subsequent discussion on this mailing list, so please, everyone go back to the new 21st century "pretend we are working" mindset where traveling is now the primary accomplishment of world leaders. The DC groups were only created by MAG so that the IGF would have something to gesture towards and say, "Look we are involved in 'progress', we are accomplishing, heck or dynamic coalitions traveled to a conference just last week and discussed important issues! But don't worry, the chair will get you a summary of our conference discussions soon!" There is a reason why the greatest technological accomplishments in the past 5 years have been driverless cars, drone technology and the apple IWatch, progress is stalled because people in power are saying to themselves, things are good the way they are but people always want more progress. To remedy that "human want for continuing progress", let's do our best to pretend we are progressing, and if anyone figures out the IG scheme to define an utter lack of progress as progress, we will just pretend they are crazy and kick them out of the mailing list or quiet them down somehow, then go back to the planning the next trip. As long as humanity sees the illusion of progress. the less humanity is likely to object to the lack of progress. That is what the G8, the G20 and every other world conference is all about, the illusion of progress for the poor and middle classes of the world to observe and say to themselves, hey that is real progress, they traveled and met and talked, that is progress. No it isn't, it is the maitenance of the status quo, because when you got millions or billions of dollars who really wants to spend any time on real progress when you can create the illusion of progress and spend the majority of time enjoying the good life. Ron"

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Notes from UA Discuss call on 2015-11-18
by Don Hollander Nov. 20, 2015

Nov. 20, 2015

Thanks to all those who participated in yesterday's (my time) call. Attached are the notes. Of particular attention: If you know someone who’s working on EAI, would you please let me and/or Brent know? Thanks. Don

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UA Plans for the next 3 months
by Ram Mohan Nov. 19, 2015

Nov. 19, 2015

Folks, It’s been a few weeks since the UA group met virtually and in person in Dublin, sustaining the momentum and drive that has made this effort an important and community supported initiative that is going from strength to strength. In the next few weeks, I will provide an update of the activities to date, and of the plans that we are making for the upcoming year. In 2016, the UA effort must move from effort to effect, and demonstrate the outcomes of the hard work of the many volunteers contributing. I’m updating my 2014 blog post on CircleID on Universal Acceptance [More Problems Crop Up With Universal Acceptance of Top Level Domains <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140207_more_problems_crop_up_universal_acce…>] – Christian Dawson has volunteered to help. *If you have data regarding problems or successes with UA in your TLD, please send me an email.* Brent London is making progress on the Technical topics, and Mark Svancarek is kicking off the metrics component. Rich Merdinger & Christian are focusing on outreach and communications efforts for 2016. Dennis Tan & Dusan Stojicevic are concentrating on the IDN and EAI pieces, an area that overlaps the work that Brent is doing. We are planning to kick off 2016 with a face to face meeting on January 14 and 15 in Washington DC, and will take up the kind offer from ICANN to host at their downtown DC offices. As is our norm, there will be an open conference bridge, and the meeting will be recorded. *Those who would like to attend in person should inform Don* cc’ing me about your intent to attend. The conference room in DC holds about 20 people comfortably, and 25 in a stretch. As you know, the work we are doing is not possible without your attention, energy and ability. We are grateful for the work you are already doing, and we need more of it in the year coming up. Regards, Ram Chair, UASG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias |Ireland|Canada|USA|India o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701 Skype: gliderpilot30

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Hackathon @ ICANN55 - Update
by Don Hollander Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

A quick update on the idea of a Hackathon @ ICANN55 Ram, Dennis & I had a call with folks at ICANN about a Hackathon @ ICANN55. We indicated that the UASG was not prepared to run a Hackathon there, but we would be happy to participate as one of the potential projects should ICANN want to pursue one. We provided some indicative information on costs and approaches used by AngelHack for their consideration. The ICANN folks are going to reconsider the idea with this information and will let us know if they decide to proceed. Don

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Update on Time...
by Don Hollander Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

Dear all… Brent quite rightly noted that my time zone was wrong – again. It’s 23:00 UTC. I’m so sorry. Don

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UA Discuss Group Call (in case you don't have this as an item in your calendar already)
by Don Hollander Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

Agenda UA Discuss Group Call Wednesday, 2015-11-18 23:00 UTC https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance MobileUSA tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559#<tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559> MobileNZ: tel://0800-459-127,*,,7375086559# MobileHK tel://800-968-082,*,,7375086559# MobileUK tel://0800-368-0950,*,,7375086559# Phone Only Controls : https://go.conferencinghub.com/1n1zr Other numbers available by request. Agenda: 1)Review of Previous Notes and action items arising a.Review of the IGF - Christian b.Hackathon 2)Matters arising from Dublin a.EAI - See written update from Brent i.We are actively seeking out EAI developers b.Help Wanted - Statement of Work - Don c.Community Engagement Model - Don d.Engagement with other bodies i.ISOC - Don ii. 3)Substantive Discussions a.Registry/Registrar Handbook - Dennis 4)AoB

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UA - Measurement & Monitoring Call
by Don Hollander Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

I’m about to send out a meeting invite for a call on Monday @ 23:00 UTC for a re-boot of the M&M program. The call is set for the ‘traditional’ UA meeting time of UTC 23:00. We recognise that this may not be a welcome time for those in Europe or Central Asia (or other parts of the world). If you would prefer a different time of day, can you let me know directly? FYI: Here are the entries from the Budget for M&M: Measurement & Monitoring Measurement and Monitoring will identify the areas that the UASG should focus its technical and outreach efforts. It will also provide some measures of achievements over time. Funds will cover establishing the evaluation criteria and contracting qualified testers to perform the evaluation. 5.1 Email Server & Client Evaluation - Evaluate the 25 largest email service and software providers for their ability to handle EAI and new gTLDs. For a broad sample of new TLDs (IDNs and ASCII), determine if an account can be created and if mail can be sent and received. $50,000 October Mark, Brent 5.2 Popular Software - Evaluate the 50 most popular programming and scripting languages and determine their UA Readiness. $50,000 November - March Mark 5.3 Popular Websites - Evaluate the 25 most popular websites globally, regionally and nationally and determine their UA Readiness. Evaluation will include 25 Globally, 25 in each of the five ICANN regions, and 25 in 10 distinct economies who form local UASG. 2015-09-18 – Calculation removed as it was incorrect. $100,000 November – June Mark 5.4 Popular Browsers - Evaluate the 25 most popular browser & their platforms (browser + operating system) to determine their UA Readiness. 25@$250 $6,250 December Mark 5.5 Soft Measures - Provide a report from the ICANN Global Survey which focuses specifically on the UA issues and their acceptance by users and registrants $5,000 January Mark 5.6 Accessibility - Assess whether there are any inhibiting factors at the routing layer. A project conducted in association with APNIC Labs $15,000 April Don in Conjunction with ICANN CTO Total Measurement and Monitoring $226,250

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UA - Measurement & Monitoring - Reboot Call
by Don Hollander Nov. 18, 2015

Nov. 18, 2015

This is a call to re-boot the discussion on Universal Acceptance - Measurement and Monitoring. https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance MobileUSA tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559#<tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559> MobileNZ: tel://0800-459-127,*,,7375086559# MobileHK tel://800-968-082,*,,7375086559# MobileUK tel://0800-368-0950,*,,7375086559# Phone Only Controls : https://go.conferencinghub.com/1n1zr Other numbers available by request.

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