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Statement of Work: Test Plan and Pilot Study of Universal Acceptance in Content Management Systems, 2020
by Mohamed Elbashir Aug. 10, 2020

Aug. 10, 2020

Dear All, The Universal Acceptance (UA) Steering Group (UASG) through its measurement working group (WG) is inviting qualified contractors to apply for the statement of work (SOW) for the test plan and pilot study of UA in the content management systems and website builders. The SOW document is available at https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/UA+Statements+of+Work Kindly share the SOW with your network and relevant mailing lists. Proposals should be submitted to UAProgram(a)icann.org<mailto:UAProgram@icann.org> before 23:00 UTC on 24th August 2020. Thank you Best Regards, Mohamed (Mo) Elbashir Universal Acceptance (UA) Program Manager The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) One World, One Internet [id:image001.png@01D356F4.3F3911B0]

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FYI: Centre for Curriculum Internationalisation
by André Schappo July 30, 2020

July 30, 2020

FYI: Centre for Curriculum Internationalisation (CCI) The CCI has an open forum for discussion of internationalisation of University Curricula groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cicin <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cicin> I am a member of this list and I occasionally post to this forum on topics concerning Computer Science Internationalisation, of which IDNs and EAI are a subset. My latest post to this forum is about IDNs groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cicin/kub5tkVVC-I <http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cicin/kub5tkVVC-I> This is part of my ongoing endeavours to raise awareness of Computer Science Internationalisation, IDNs and EAI in Academia. I hope that sometime in the future, internationalisation will be integral and foundational to the Computer Science curriculum. To my knowledge, I am the only Computer Science academic on this forum, so I frequently wonder how well my posts are received by the forum members ☺️ André Schappo

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Updated UASG Inventory Document
by Jane Sexton July 29, 2020

July 29, 2020

Hi All – Hope everyone is well. Just letting you know that we have updated the UASG inventory document that outlines all of the available UASG resources on uasg.tech. Hope you find this helpful! https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG000-en-digital.pdf Best, Jane -- Jane Sexton Communications Coordinator, Global Domains Division Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 310 570 7293 Slack: jane.sexton www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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there's no unsubscribe
by Brenda Wallace July 29, 2020

July 29, 2020

Can a list admin please fix the unsubscribe instructions? There's is only this message in the message footer: "You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status" but no mailman link above.

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UA Measurement Working Group - Future Projects
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis July 28, 2020

July 28, 2020

All, As a follow up to the publishing of the Draft Action Plan for 2020-2021<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UASG-FY21-Action-Plan-20200721…> the UA Measurement working group wants to provide more detail as to the future projects under work item M2 (“gap analysis”). The UA Measurement working group is primarily tasked with providing the UASG with data analysis on UA-readiness on different technologies. The purpose is to help inform the mitigation or remediation strategies. To this end the working group is pleased to present to you the preliminary project prioritization for fiscal year 2020-2021. We ranked these projects based on an “impact” scale (more on this, here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uZENuWMzAcbOxxnhm2fYnU8TAh9sbS2j5qEaWI3…>), which is a subjective measure of a combination of i) how far or close the application is to the end-user experience, ii) the scale of users of said application, and ii) whether the application is a major blocker to UA (i.e. critical path). The prioritization is shown in the below table, followed by a more detailed explanation about each item. The projects or items are ordered from high to low priority. Grouping Work Item End-User Impact Score Confidence Level of Completing within Fiscal Year Group 1 Social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Wechat, Whatsapp, etc.) 14.0 Very High 86% - 100% Browsers: Worldwide and selected markets (e.g. China, Russian Federation, other?) 13.5 Group 2 Websites: augment with email acceptance analysis (i.e. reasons for not-acceptance, test transport of email), and purpose break down (e.g. e-commerce, media, etc.) 11.0 High 56% - 85% Second phase of Content Management Systems (CMS). This project is contingent to reviewing the results of phase 1 (tentatively Q1 2021) 11.0 OS authentication in Device (e.g. apple ID) 10.0 Group 3 Research impact on UA about usage of authentication APIs (e.g. Login with Facebook, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1hCgImyEvWRAd8Jx_UyNXiRRLia1aHKYpCTVo3-jaTPMJF…> 8.0 Low 36% - 55% Second phase open-source applications. This project is contingent to reviewing the results of phase 1 (tentatively Q4 2020) 7.0 Group 4 Certificates 4.0 Very Low 0% - 35% Common operating system utilities 3.0 I.Group 1: a. Social media applications: primarily, the working group will be looking at linkification and acceptance of email address in these platforms. We will select a number of applications, including Facebook, Whatsapp, Wechat, etc. b. Browsers: the working group will build upon previous work – UASG016 – to update the gap analysis, but also introduce some other relevant players in the space. The selection of browsers will be based on market share, globally and a from a few selected territories e.g. China, Russian Federation. II.Group 2: a. Websites: This project will update and augment previous work – UASG017 and UASG025 – to determine the reasons for not accepting a type of email address and to test the actual delivery of an email using any type of email address. We may also introduce industry-specific test case for certain type of websites e.g. e-commerce. b. Content Management System, Phase 2: This project will build upon phase 1 of the CMS study. The working group will apply lessons learned from phase 1 and expand the gap analysis to a wider suite of applications e.g. website builders and other self-hosted solutions. c. OS authentication in device: the working group will look at the mobile device onboarding process and its acceptance of a wide variety of email addresses. III.Group 3: a. Research impact of authentication APIs: Have you noticed that internet applications offer a quicker way to sign-up for their services using e.g. your Facebook or Google login information? The working group will explore some of these services and test its universal acceptance readiness. b. Open-source application, Phase 2: This project will build upon phase 1 of UA-readiness of applications in open-source code. IV.Group 4: a. Certificates: Are website certificates ua-ready? The working group would look at the creation process and test UA-readiness. b. Common operating system utilities: This project wants to look at certain operating system utilities and determine if they accept UTF (i.e. unrestricted Unicode) as a valid input. To ease the project planning we grouped projects with similar scores. Group 1 and Group 2 have a higher chance to be completed during the fiscal year. Group 3 and Group 4 aren’t likely to be initiated this year. This is just a reflection of the working group resources. We will evaluate the remaining projects in the next year in addition to new project requests. We would like to request your feedback (e.g. need clarification, add a project, remove a project, etc.) to the preliminary prioritization list by no later than July 31st 2020. If you have any question please let us know via email to ua-measurement(a)icann.org<mailto:ua-measurement@icann.org> Thank you, Dennis, on behalf the UA-Measurement WG.

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New UA Ambassadors Social Media Campaign and Blog Translations
by Jane Sexton July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Hi All – Hope everyone is doing well. We are excited to share that we have kicked off a “Get to Know the UA Ambassadors” series on UASG social media channels. These posts (published every Tuesday) will highlight a different UA Ambassador and provide a quote to offer more insight into why they joined the program, what they look to accomplish, and why they care about UA/EAI. Here are today’s first posts highlighting new UA Ambassador Mark Elkins from South Africa: * Twitter<https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1285614412045459457?s=20> * Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/uasgtech/posts/3140554079368452> * LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6691388925065461760> We have also published translations of the most recent UASG blog announcing six new UA Ambassadors (the Hindi translation will eventually be added). You can view them here: https://bit.ly/3ehiVBl<https://t.co/FneZirlzYV?amp=1>. If you can, please help share and promote this new campaign through your social channels and networks. Thanks, Jane -- Jane Sexton Communications Coordinator, Global Domains Division Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 310 570 7293 Slack: jane.sexton www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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UASG's FY21 Action Plan - Request for Community Feedback
by Sarmad Hussain July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Dear UASG members, Please find attached UASG’s Draft FY21 Action Plan for your review and feedback. The plan is also posted at UASG.tech website. This Draft Action Plan has been compiled based on the discussions over past several weeks by the UASG working groups (WGs) on the tasks they would like to prioritize. This input from the WGs was collated and presented during ICANN68 Prep Week<https://68.schedule.icann.org/meetings/sXAi7JXbi4SQPKo2K#/?limit=10&sortByF…>. We would request you to please review the draft plan and provide your input through the online form<https://forms.gle/1sqsAbcsJtgQTQ92A> by 31 July 2020. UASG’s FY21 Action Plan will be finalized based on the feedback received. We look forward to your comments and feedback. Regards, Sarmad

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Unified calendar
by Mark W. Datysgeld July 18, 2020

July 18, 2020

Hello all, could we have a unified calendar for all key UA meetings, WG and special ones, over at Google Calendars? Just simple and clean, that we can integrate with our own calendars if we want and know at a glance what is going on in the project. No need for anything fancy or overdesigned. Anybody else? -- Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website] In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

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Interesting IDNs
by Andre Schappo July 16, 2020

July 16, 2020

I have started a new thread on IDNForums - http://www.idnforums.com/forums/35988-interesting-idns.html If you would like to participate then please post interesting IDNs + story to this thread. If you do not want to join IDNForums but you do find/know of interesting IDNs then please email me info and I will post to this thread. If you would like the post to be attributed to you then please also email me your name (if relevant - romanised + native script) and say, a link to your blog/social. André Schappo

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Mail support for email addresses using Indian script in Apple Mail App
by Nitin Walia July 10, 2020

July 10, 2020

Hi I hope everyone is doing well and keeping utmost care doing this COVID19 pandemic. Happy to share with everyone a great piece of information . It&rsquos a great news for UA Community and EAI working group that mission is achieved and the apple website has information about this achievement, feature part of the iOS14 preview that will be released this fall. https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/features/ , If you scroll down the page, we have the information part of &ldquoInternational&rdquo. &ldquoMail support for email addresses using Indian script You can send and receive email using addresses composed of Indian script&rdquo.Indian language email address on apple email client were tested using email address from DataMail and XgenPlus for EAI mail support in apple mail app . Hope this helps Thanks Warm Regards Nitin Walia नितिन वालिया Director निदेशक Data Xgen Technologies डाटा एक्सजेन टेक्नोलॉजीज Email: nitin(a)xgenplus.com नितिन(a)xn--v1bmv2ck2cxbe5k8bf.xn--h2brj9c Web: www.xgenplus.com एक्सजेनप्लस.भारत Mobile | whatsapp: +919828025000 | Skype id - n_walia Do not Remove: [HID]20200629144414280[-HID]

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