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New IDN guidelines draft
by Vittorio Bertola May 11, 2018

May 11, 2018

Hi all, ICANN just released a new draft of the new IDN guidelines, possibly the final one: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-10-en This is where ICANN puts rules for registries and registrars on IDN registrations, including those that are of interest to universal acceptance. I think that the draft has got better over time, but rule #17 is still about "encouraging" registries to avoid registration of whole-script confusables, rather than requiring them... and we know that any publicly noticed instance of phishing based on visual character confusion will play against universal acceptance. Ciao -- Vittorio Bertola Head of Policy & Innovation Cell: +39 348 7015022 Skype: in-skype-ox(a)bertola.eu Email: vittorio.bertola(a)open-xchange.com mailto:vittorio.bertola@open-xchange.com Twitter: @openexchange http://twitter.com/openexchange - Facebook: OpenXchange https://www.facebook.com/OpenXchange - Web: www.open-xchange.com http://www.open-xchange.com Open-Xchange AG, Rollnerstr. 14, 90408 Nuremberg, District Court Nuremberg HRB 24738 Managing Board: Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Carsten Dirks, Michael Knapstein, Stephan Martin Chairman of the Board: Richard Seibt European Office: Open-Xchange GmbH, Olper Huette 5f, D-57462 Olpe, Germany, District Court Siegen, HRB 8718 Managing Director: Frank Hoberg US Office: Open-Xchange. Inc., 530 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message and any attachments from your system.

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Arabic IDN / CentOs Linux / Bind DNS Server
by Zied BOUZIRI May 9, 2018

May 9, 2018

Hi Running my first IDN domain موقع.نطاق (for test purpose) with BIND9 DNS server under CentOs Server. Next Step Postfix Mail server SMTPUTF8 for EAI Best regards -- *cordially*, *مع تحياتي* *Zied BOUZIRI*، *زياد بوزيري* ISET Charguia, Tunisie www.bouziri.tn

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SEO tool is getting UA-ready
by Seda Akbulut May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018

Dear UASG members and UA-Discuss List subscribers, This is a quick update about a Searching Engine Optimization (SEO) tool's solution regarding Universal Acceptance. At ICANN Global Support Center, we received an issue logging via https://UASG.TECH website about a well-known Searching Engine Optimization (SEO) tool, namely MOZ, that does not give as good results for New gTLDs as the legacy TLDs. MOZ provides "Page Authority" and "Domain Authority" values for any domain name. Page Authority (PA) is a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a specific page will rank on Search Engine Result Pages (SERP). PA scores range from 1 to 100, with higher scores corresponding to a greater ability to rank. Likewise, in the issue logging we received, many people raised similar questions at MOZ's Q&A forum that for all new gTLDs the value it gives is the minimum, although it scores pretty higher for a website that has the same structure but ends with .com or other legacy TLDs. I am including here MOZ's answers to such issues from their website: * https://moz.com/community/q/moz-doesn-t-work-for-dating-and-chat-domain-ext… * https://moz.com/community/q/unable-to-investigate-online-or-company-etc-add… * https://moz.com/community/q/gtlds-in-open-site-explorer * https://moz.com/community/q/i-am-working-on-a-site-with-a-global-tld-what-a… Fortunately, MOZ is aware of the technical limitation of their tool they are using and already started to work on improvements. They have even written a blog about a SEO's Guide to Acquiring New gTLDs (https://moz.com/ugc/an-seos-guide-to-acquiring-new-gtlds) Based on the issue logging we received, I made some tests and research on MOZ's SEO and website. Then I conveyed this Universal Acceptance issue to MOZ.COM. Within a record time, we received a positive response. They accepted the fact that it is true that their historical link index did not support most of the new gTLDs. This was, unfortunately, a technological limitation of the tool at the time, but the good news is that MOZ has just begun a beta for "new Link Explorer tool". This tool is based on a larger, more robust index that includes support for many New gTLDs. As an example, in the new index, Domain Authority won't be 1 anymore for New gTLDs. The beta version can generate DA at 53 for a NewgTLD domain name. MOZ stated that they will continue striving to expand their dataset and TLD support among all aspects of their tools. You can try out Link Explorer now, and see if the new data meets your needs. Because they are in beta with the Link Explorer tool, there is not much publicity yet about it. As soon as they leave beta, they will launch a broader awareness campaign for all interested parties! I have received their permission to share this good news within the UA-Discuss Group. For more information please visit their Q&A forum post: https://moz.com/community/q/the-new-link-explorer-which-will-replace-open-s… Best regards, Seda Akbulut Lead Global Support Analyst ICANN Global Support Team

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an enterprising individual
by Andre Schappo May 6, 2018

May 6, 2018

I happened upon this enterprising individual ➜ twitter.com/markpanado/status/992440041677799424<http://twitter.com/markpanado/status/992440041677799424> André Schappo

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Re: [UA-discuss] Two recent website updates...
by Dr Ajay Data May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

If its not too difficult, the list of Ambassadors may be in Alphabetic order on the basis of first or last name. Thanks 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: Don Hollander MailId : [81127510]To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" Subject: [UA-discuss] Two recent website updates...Date: 03 May 2018 04:06:21 AM We&rsquove published two updates recently on the www.uasg.tech website: A blog post announcing recent UA Ambassadors https://uasg.tech/2018/04/introducing-the-first-ua-ambassadors/ A report on Financials YTD through March 31, 2018 https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FY-17-18-Financials.pdf Don Don Hollander Secretary General &ndash UASG Skype: Don_Hollander Do not Remove:[HID]20180503040621398[-HID]

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UASGTech Tweeting Now, please share
by Audrey Fery-Forgues May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

Hello All, Please check out UASGTech’s most recent post on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/988930970303660032 Please be sure to follow the @UASGTech twitter handle, retweet, tag and like our posts in order to help spread the word on Universal Acceptance. Thank you, Audrey

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.cern TLD
by Andre Schappo May 3, 2018

May 3, 2018

On a lighter note ➜ twitter.com/DomainIncite/status/501375544207114240<http://twitter.com/DomainIncite/status/501375544207114240> 😀 André Schappo

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Two recent website updates...
by Don Hollander May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018

We've published two updates recently on the www.uasg.tech<http://www.uasg.tech> website: A blog post announcing recent UA Ambassadors https://uasg.tech/2018/04/introducing-the-first-ua-ambassadors/ A report on Financials YTD through March 31, 2018 https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FY-17-18-Financials.pdf Don Don Hollander Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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Document Reviews
by Don Hollander April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018

>From time to time we review our documents to make sure that they're still correct and relevant. This month I would like to look at four of our earliest documents: UASG001 - Knowledge base of points of engagement https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/UA001-v2015040-UA-Knowledge-Ba… UASG002 - Webmaster Engagement script https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/UASG002-Webmaster-Engagement-N… UASG003 - UA at a Glance https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/UASG003-160823-en-onesheet-dig… UASG011 - Frequently Asked Questions - https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/UASG011-160823-en-faq-digital.… These are short exercises. If you have comments about how any one of them can be markedly improved, do let me know directly. If there's enough interest we can organise a group call to go through them. I would like to have this completed by the end of the month. Thanks. Don Don Hollander Secretary General - UASG Skype: Don_Hollander

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FW: ADOBE CONNECT – WHAT NEXT? - ICANN Blog By Ash Rangan
by Mark Svancarek April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018

May be of interest From: gnso-rds-pdp-wg <gnso-rds-pdp-wg-bounces(a)icann.org> On Behalf Of Nathalie Peregrine Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 11:14 AM To: gnso-rds-pdp-wg(a)icann.org Subject: [gnso-rds-pdp-wg] ADOBE CONNECT – WHAT NEXT? - ICANN Blog By Ash Rangan Dear all: Please take a look at this blog on Adobe Connect. And note the request: Before we make these changes, we want to hear from you. What do you think? Please submit your thoughts on this contemplated move before May 2nd here: RP-tool(a)icann.org<mailto:RP-tool@icann.org> Best regards, David https://www.icann.org/news/blog/adobe-connect-what-next[icann.org]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense…> ADOBE CONNECT – WHAT NEXT? As you know, the ICANN organization took down its Adobe Connect service midway through the ICANN61 meeting in response to reported issues[icann.org]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense…> with this service. Concurrently, we began to conduct our own forensic analysis of the reported incident and began working with our Adobe cloud service provider, CoSo Cloud LLC, and through them with Adobe to learn more. Shortly thereafter, we rolled out instances of Zoom and WebEx for the community to support remote participation (RP) and collaboration. Here's where we are now: The Forensics Investigation With respect to our forensics work, we received application logfiles from CoSo Cloud, going back for a period of one year. ICANN Engineering and Security teams have examined these application log files and the results of our investigation clearly show "fingerprints of incursion" by the researcher who reported the issue. We were unable to find any other indication that anyone else either identified or exploited this issue. Thanks to the person who found the bug again. Working closely with CoSo Cloud, we were able to recreate the reported issue, and understand the conditions required to trigger it. This information has been communicated to Adobe, and Adobe is working on a software fix to address the root cause of the issue. We have also been working with CoSo on options to re-enable Adobe Connect in the shorter term. We have determined there are two viable paths to accomplish this goal. They are: 1. Deploy a hardened configuration to eliminate "man-in-the-middle" exploitations by encrypting relevant traffic, or 2. Implement a programmatic fix from CoSo Cloud to substantially reduce the window during which the issue can be exploited. With respect to the first option, we attempted to hack the hardened configuration in a test environment last week, and were not able to do so over the course of 7 hours. Separately, CoSo Cloud and Adobe conducted similar tests and confirmed that this configuration is protected from exploitation of the issue. Community Feedback and Next Steps For the last three weeks, we have been gathering limited feedback regarding users' experiences with WebEx and Zoom. So far, we have input from about 200 people, including ICANN org meeting organizers and the ICANN community. Our analysis of this feedback indicates a desire to revert back to an Adobe Connect, providing the security of the service is ensured. Accordingly, we would like to propose the following plan to the broader community for consideration: 1. We would like to restore Adobe Connect services with both the new hardened configuration and the programmatic fix discussed above. Our intent would be to restore service by 3 May. This would allow us to use Adobe Connect during several upcoming events including the Board Workshop, the GDD Industry Summit, and ICANN62. 2. Once Adobe releases a new version of the software with a fix for this issue from their perspective, and provides assurance the update has been adequately tested, we will move toward that release of Adobe Connect in a prudent manner, with the help of CoSo Cloud. We believe that this approach will ensure the security of our content, and of our community interactions, while also enabling our community to use the collaboration tools of their choice. Before we make these changes, we want to hear from you. What do you think? Please submit your thoughts on this contemplated move before May 2nd here: RP-tool(a)icann.org<mailto:RP-tool@icann.org> Meanwhile, we will continue to offer WebEx and Zoom for RP and collaboration purposes. We will also continue to follow industry developments, including the research ALAC is doing on the RP and collaboration space, to ensure we are using secure and cost-effective tools that are appropriate for our needs. I look forward to your comments! David A. Olive Senior Vice President Policy Development Support Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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