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Notes from UA M&M call - 27/7/15 @ 20:00 UTC
by Don Hollander July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015

Attached please find a draft of the notes from the call earlier this week. If you have any corrections, please let me know. This is copied to the broader UA-discuss list in case anyone there is interested in subscribing to the UA-measurement list. (if so, please let me know). This is a one time occurrence. With kindest regards to all Don

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Re: [UA-discuss] UA Measurement and Monitoring Call
by Jennifer Gore Standiford July 27, 2015

July 27, 2015

Hello All, I am just waiting for the host to accept my request to join the session. Thank you, Jennifer -----Original Appointment----- From: Don Hollander [mailto:don.hollander@icann.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 11:57 PM To: ua-measurement(a)icann.org; UA-discuss(a)icann.org Subject: [UA-discuss] UA Measurement and Monitoring Call When: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:00 PM-5:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada). Where: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance Agenda Universal Acceptance - Measurement and Monitoring Monday, 27 July 20:00 UTC Prepared by Don Hollander https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance MobileUSA tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559#<file://localhost/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. We can also have the system call you. 1. Attendance & Apologies 2. Agenda Bashing 3. Presentation from Buenos Aires - Review 4. The ICANN nTLD accessibility Project (TBC) 5. The ICANN nTLD survey project (TBC) 6. 'Hard' Metrics - What and How and When to Measure 7. 'Soft' Metrics - What and How and When to Measure 8. Monitoring UA Wiki (which includes the UASG Charter): https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444

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Google's handling of new top level domains
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015

Might be of interest Dennis

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UA Measurement and Monitoring Call
by Don Hollander July 21, 2015

July 21, 2015

Agenda Universal Acceptance - Measurement and Monitoring Monday, 27 July 20:00 UTC Prepared by Don Hollander https://icann.adobeconnect.com/universalacceptance MobileUSA tel://1-719-325-2630,*,,7375086559#<file://localhost/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. We can also have the system call you. 1. Attendance & Apologies 2. Agenda Bashing 3. Presentation from Buenos Aires - Review 4. The ICANN nTLD accessibility Project (TBC) 5. The ICANN nTLD survey project (TBC) 6. 'Hard' Metrics - What and How and When to Measure 7. 'Soft' Metrics - What and How and When to Measure 8. Monitoring UA Wiki (which includes the UASG Charter): https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444

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FYI
by Dusan Stojicevic July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-07-20-en --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Any help needed?
by Miguel Ignacio Estrada July 13, 2015

July 13, 2015

Hi everyone, I am new to this discussion group, and would like to be more involved and also collaborate with the initiative. Is there any open topic or work I could help with? I work in digital communication, so I could be helpful with materials, social media, etc. I look forward to any reply. Thanks in advance. -- Nacho Estrada | @acmuzic <http://twitter.com/acmuzic> http://holainter.net

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linkmoji
by Andre Schappo July 13, 2015

July 13, 2015

A new service to create linkmoji 😄 http://🆒🔗.ws http://🎳🍖🐢🏀🍛🐮🍓👍.🆒🔗.ws http://😍👍🐕🍳🐜🌻🍌📦.🆒🔗.ws This linkmoji service does highlight some interesting questions and issues * Emoji are not allowed in IDNA2008 but considering the huge popularity maybe they should be allowable characters in IDNA. * It would be good if "Picture Language" could be an option in choice of languages in Chrome which would enable one to whitelist linkmoji and hence have emoji displayed instead of punycode. By "Picture Language" I mean unicode emoji. The linkmoji display fine in Safari. André Schappo

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Report from NetHui 2015
by Don Hollander July 13, 2015

July 13, 2015

Report UA @ NetHui 2015 July 8-10 2015 Prepared by Don Hollander NetHui (2015.nethui.nz) is an annual ‘IGF like’ event organized by InternetNZ. “Hui” is the Māori word used for a gathering. In many ways, NetHui is an un-conference. There are planned themed sessions as well as sessions that are developed ‘on the fly’. By and large, the sessions are not mostly presentations, but instead are community driven discussions that are facilitated. NetHui are dynamic, organic and community driven. They can often be very passionate. This year there were about 400 people present. Universal Acceptance concepts were inserted into a number of sessions as well as many corridor discussions. ・ During the PacINET gathering of participants from the Pacific. During a more structured presentation by Save Vocea of ICANN and interventions by Don Hollander ・ During the Gov 2.0 session that looked at the future of digital government services. ・ During the Domains: Growth, change and transition session (by Don Hollander and Karatiana Taiura). ・ During the InTac session on technologies ・ During the closing plenary on Digital Inclusion ・ During the Code Club Meetup (Code club is an initiative to introduce coding education for young people). New Zealand has a strong focus on inclusiveness, particularly between the indigenous Māori and the Crown. The Māori language is written with an extended Latin script with macrons above the vowels. This makes it an IDN. The focus of the interventions was that the DNS now provides for inclusiveness of language, both at the Root and within the .nz name space. It is now time for the developers of New Zealand to recognize this and adjust their systems to embrace them.

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Report from APRIGF 2015
by Don Hollander July 9, 2015

July 9, 2015

Dear all: Please find bellow a report from the UA session at the APRIGF recently held in Macau. Copies of the presentations are available on request – they are collectively quite large to include in an e-mail. As soon as they are posted onto the APRGF web site I will share the links here. Don — Report on UA @ APRIGF 2 July 2015 Prepared by Don Hollander There was a Universal Acceptance session at the APRIGF held in Macau on the 2nd of July 2015. The plan had been for a number of ‘shortish’ presentations followed by discussion. Presenters included: - Don Hollander, member of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group, covered what UASG is and its work and structure. - Pensri Arunwatanamongkol, THNIC, who talked about their push (technically and administratively) for greater adoption of .ไทย - Edmon Chung, .Asia, who talked with passion about IDNs, some of the challenges of IDNs, and why the community needed to embrace IDN’s to get the next Billion into the Internet. Edmon also provided a structure description of where UA issues sit within applications. - Jonathan Shea, CEO of HKIRC, will talk about their efforts to promote .hk and .hong kong. (Jonathan participateed remotely) - Marvin Woo from Coremail, who talked about their EAI compliant mail system, and what they’re seeing in their first year of production. There were about 30 people in the audience. Of note: Pensri talked about their workshop held earlier this year and how it involved not just the registry, but also government, hosting companies and others. Good progress was made during the session and a follow-up workshop is planned for the end of the year. Jonathan noted that registration in the .hong kong IDN registry has been lackluster, but in line with the results of other IDN ccTLDs around the region. Marvin Woo indicated that Coremail had more than 600 million e-mail accounts, and that 50,000 had been deployed in their new EAI mail system. Their current system alias’s to an ASCII e-mail address when encountering a non-compliant e-mail system. There was quite good and vibrant discussion after the presentations: - One person wondered about the impact on the Open Source Community and was heartened that we’d already thought about it and planned to encourage relevant libraries. They did note that it would be a big challenge to get so many millions of applications to become UA ready, but that having some libraries available would be useful. - Another asked if we had KPIs, key deliverables with dates. Alas, the short answer was no, but that we were just embarking on what would be a long journey. What should have been said is that we expect to engage with the larger e-mail service and software providers during the next trimester. We also expect to have an updated version of the UA Guide available during this time frame as well. This should include some good practice guides. - Another expressed frustration that the ccTLDs had not already embarked on such an initiative and also wondered where the members of the gNSO were. Both ccTLDs and gTLDs, registrars and other parties are active members of the UASG and given the scale of the issue, really needed a global community to addresses it. - We also heard of the strong effort and commitment that Microsoft is making to UA.

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Report on UA @ ICANN53
by Don Hollander July 4, 2015

July 4, 2015

Follows a report on UA activities @ ICANN53. Universal Acceptance @ ICANN53 Prepared by Don Hollander As many as fifty people at any point in time attended the first Universal Acceptance Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN53 meeting in Buenos Aires. It was the first opportunity for the UASG and it’s project groups to meet face to face to assess achievements to date and plan for the next trimester. UASG Chair Ram Mohan went through the formative processes of the UASG since January 2015. Since the seed was germinated in January, the idea of the UASG has coalesced, was affirmed at the ICANN52 meeting in Singapore, chartered, project groups formed, leaders selected and work started. The workshop also heard from ICANN’s CIO Ashwin Rangan about the real world complexities that a CIO faces to make their organization UA Ready. For many, this insight into the real world were very welcome. Topline & Technical This group identified two substantial, priority issues that need to be addressed. - There’s a very real need to get Email Address Internationalization (EAI) software further developed and deployed. With Microsoft and Google active members of the UASG the group wanted to put focus on the other very large e-mail service and software providers – such as 163.com, Yandex, Yahoo, Coremail and others. - Another very real need is to develop and publish specifications and good practice guides aimed at Systems Architects and programmers. And associated with this is the need to get some sample code libraries available International The International group has its focus on the IDN ecosystem and its target audience is the small and medium size developers. The end goal of this group is to develop guides, tools and widgets to drive adoption of IDNs. During the workshop, the group identified some near and long term goals. - Among the near term goals is the compilation of good practices about handling of confusable characters to minimize spoofing of domain names - For long-term goals the group identified several initiatives. To name a few: next generation IDN guidelines, discuss a transition plan for full IDNA2008 support by browsers, draft recommendation to standardized browser behavior with IDNs. Measurement & Monitoring This group is going to develop a seat of measures, both objective and subjective. The group re-affirmed its desire to make sure that it’s efforts were people focused. And the group will also work on some method to capture non-compliant environments and reach out to the relevant responsible party. Community Outreach The Community Outreach group wanted to focus on substantive and achievable results during the next trimester. Taking their riding instructions from the other groups on where to focus, they will work on the following two projects: - Reaching out to very large e-mail service and software suppliers to encourage EAI compliance. - Developing a communications package for the smaller organisations that the International group wants to target. The Community Outreach group will also look at UA Branding and newsletters and other activities as resources permit. In addition to the UA Workshop, a number of other UA sessions were held: UA Updates were presented to: · The LACDNS Forum · The Registries · The Registrars · The ISPs · The ccNSO · The geoTLD Group The UA Public Forum was held with a repeat of Ram’s presentation at the workshop and Ashwin’s presentation on ICANN IT’s activities as well as an update from the four project groups on the output from Sunday. At the UA Public Forum we also heard of work that David Conrad’s group within ICANN is doing to test reachability of new gTLDs.

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