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It only seems likes it's been quiet...
by Don Hollander April 21, 2015

April 21, 2015

It only seems like it’s been quiet… Here’s an update of some of what’s been happening in the UASG world: · Project Group Coordinators that have been confirmed so far… o Top Line Issues – Brent London o Community Outreach – Rich Merdinger and Christian Dawson o Internationalisation – Dusan Stojicevic and Dennis Tan o Measurement and Monitoring – still to be determined · A workshop proposal has been submitted to the IGF. This is co-sponsored by The DNA and the UASG · A workshop proposal has been submitted to the APRIGF (Asia Pacific Regional IGF) · The UA Wiki Page has been updated - https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444 · There has been some discussion on the Community Outreach Project Group mailing list about things that the group can do. Please continue to make contribution there. · An outline for a quarterly newsletter has been established. We’re currently looking for a couple of case studies. Please let me know directly if you have some ideas. Now that three out of the four Project Groups have coordinators these groups will start work on clarifying the scope, coming up with ideas to do in the next twelve months, and starting to work. We’ve also booked space for a full-day workshop on the Sunday during the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires. Please share what you would like in this workshop. Don

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Interesting UA issues repository
by Rubens Kuhl April 19, 2015

April 19, 2015

http://supportthenew.domains <http://supportthenew.domains/> (or for those wanting the full list: http://supportthenew.domains/who-supports-the-new-gtlds/view/all/ <http://supportthenew.domains/who-supports-the-new-gtlds/view/all/> ) Rubens

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iForum 2015, Ukraine
by Dusan Stojicevic April 19, 2015

April 19, 2015

Dear Colleagues, Just FYI> At the request of Yuriy Karogopolov, GP Cyrillic coordinator and member of the Council "Ukrainian Network Information Center" (managing .УКР domain), I joined remotely as a panelist on IDN panel, at one of the largest Ukrainian IT events (http://2015.iforum.ua/) We were talking about UA in general, our work, Serbian IDN domain, and about the success of Ukrainian domain, despite the situation, with excellent growth (обирай.укр). Unfortunately no videos. Some coverage: https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/iforum-gathers-it-lovers-386388.h… Regards, Dusan --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. http://www.avast.com

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Curious UA case
by Rubens Kuhl April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

https://twitter.com/viktorphoenix/status/588730272432005120 "That's funny. @Oracle's "Do Not E-Mail Request" form doesn't recognize new TLDs like .haus that we use for @echohausaudio." Wouldn't that bring Oracle in lack of compliance with CAN-Spam US legislation ? Rubens

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July OSCon in Portland - Getting UA in front of developers
by Jothan Frakes April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

One of the larger Open Source developer conferences is called OSCon in Portland, operated by O'Reilly (those books with the various black and white animal pictures on them). The event is July 20-24 in Portland Oregon. Here is the URL: http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/grid/public There are quite a number of infosec sessions if you need 'security and stability' justification for budget, but the focus of UA advancement might be helped by being in front of the people who are actually writing the code on the majority of the websites that Internet users are interacting with. In skimming the sessions, this one stood out to me: You type "google.com" into your browser bar and press enter: what happens next? http://www.oscon.com/open-source-2015/public/schedule/detail/41094 Seems to me like participation in events like this would have a large impact. The bad news about UA in the developer community is that there is very little awareness of new TLDs and IDN - the majority of the developers I speak with have little or no awareness of the new TLDs, IDN, or EAI issues. The silver lining to that, which I think is the good news, is that there's really not much that could be done to set UA backwards by participating and elevating awareness of new TLDs. Are there any UA participants that are attending this event to help grow awareness of the IDN TLDs, new TLDs and UA? -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230

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Some findings on the level of acceptance of IDNs - particularly in Arabic
by Kurt Pritz April 16, 2015

April 16, 2015

Hi Everyone, These presentations were forwarded from a conference session in Dubai on 1-2 April 2015. One is a presentation from ICANN on the IDN program and the other is some research on the compatibility of Arabic IDNs with various Internet applications. They reinforce the need for more work on universal acceptance, especially the report by Raed Alfayez of SaudiNIC. While I can get a lot of the problem and specific work from the slides, do we think it'd be good to have Raed present this material (or are these results already well known)? Regards Kurt

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RIGF, small report
by Dusan Stojicevic April 14, 2015

April 14, 2015

Dear all, Last week, Russia held the sixth annual Internet Governance Forum (6. RIGF) in Moscow, a gathering of officials, business people, and other Web “stakeholders” to discuss Internet regulation. It was a very interesting and very good one-day event, held in Lotte Hotel on April 7, and You can check the agenda on www.rigf.ru. Small jokes in the names of the sessions were only the cover for very good and fruitful debates. I will save the best for last. J First session was revelation for me. Called „The Bottom Up and Upside Down“, this session was focused on Internet governance and the influence of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The participants included Oleg Demidov (Russia), Lucky Masilela (South Africa), Marília Maciel (Brazil), Parminderjeet Singh (India) and Liyun Han (China). At the same time, the session called „We Share the Same Technology (Regardless of Ideology)“ was about the issues of the Internet of Things (IoT). The panel participants included Jari Arkko (IETF), Paul Vixie (Farsight Security, Inc.), Kaveh Ranjbar (RIPE NCC), Pavel Khramtsov (Netoscope) and Andrey Yarnikh (Kaspersky Lab). I skiped this one, but it was very interesting. The panel titled „Your Call Is Very Important for Us“ focused on cooperation between the Internet business community and governments. Vartan Khachaturov, Alexander Shepilov, Michael Yakushev, Dmitry Marinichev, as well as Frederic Donck (Belgium) and Julien Nocetti (France) took part in the discussion. I skiped this one also, because I was participant at the same time on the IDN panel. This year, registries representatives of nearly all national Cyrillic domains attended the forum, and on the session „Expanding the Cyrillic Universe“ we covered problems and challenges in the Cyrillic zone – participants: Mikhail Anisimov (Russia), Iliya Bazlyankov (Bulgaria), Pavel Gusev (Kazakhstan), Saso Dimitrijoski (Macedonia), Yuri Kargapolov (Ukraine), Sergey Povalishev (Belarus) and me. But the opening session was the one that raised bunch of questions and even this kind of articles https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/04/09/listen-everybody-knows-who-controls…. To see whole event - http://rigf.ru/en/press/?p=video All best, Dusan --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. http://www.avast.com

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Thailand EAI Workshop on May 8th, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand
by Wilas Chamlertwat April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015

Dear Community We are pleased to inform you that the Thai Netwrok Information Center (THNIC) Foundation and the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (Public Organization) or ETDA are co-organising a one day event on Thailand EAI Workshop on May 8th, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop aims to look at the Thai community to identify the key players and how to promote the usage of Thai IDN and EAI to enhance local internet penetration and minimize digital divide. Expecting results form the workshop would be a list of tasks, action plan and timeframe, and plan executors appointment. We are welcome everybody in USAG to join the event. For more information, please visit http://thnic.or.th/eai-workshop If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me anytime. Best Regards, Wilas Chamlertwat, Ph.D. Event Coordinator

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Proposal for Universal Acceptance Session during the Asia Pacific Regional IGF - July 2015
by Don Hollander April 5, 2015

April 5, 2015

Dear All: There is some interest in having a session during the APRIGF in Macao in July looking at Universal Acceptance Issues, particularly as they related to IDN TLDs. There have been similar workshops in the past and this looks to build on those. The expected output from the workshop is a matrix identifying who has done what and with what degree of success. This matrix can then be used in other communities as people advocate the UA platform. Apologies for this being so late, but we would like to solicit any comments that you might have on this proposal. It is due to the organisers on the 7th of April (Hong Kong time). The APRIGF is an annual regional IGF for the Asia-Pacific region. More details of the event can be found at aprigf.asia Thank you. DOn

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Re: [UA-discuss] UA short URL
by DJ Chuang April 4, 2015

April 4, 2015

How about this for an easy-to-share & easy-to-remember URL -> http://universalacceptance.link Launched this site for the good of the cause, universal acceptance. Please let me know of other helpful links & articles that should be added. -- DJ Chuang -- .BIBLE Registry Manager at American Bible Society http://BibleTLD.org

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