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FW: [ME ICANN] Reminder: Invitation to the ME Virtual meeting on Universal Acceptance & Email Address Internationalization using Arabic Script
by Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila June 7, 2020

June 7, 2020

Kindly find the below invitation and feel free to share. From: Middle-East <middle-east-bounces(a)icann.org> On Behalf Of Tijani BEN JEMAA Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 06:30 PM To: Middle East ICANN <middle-east(a)icann.org> Subject: [ME ICANN] Reminder: Invitation to the ME Virtual meeting on Universal Acceptance & Email Address Internationalization using Arabic Script Dear Middle East Community members, We would like to invite you to attend the Middle East Space virtual meeting to discuss the attached statement prepared by the drafting team lead by the two penholders Abdelmonem Galila and Zied Bouziri on Universal Acceptance & Email Address Internationalization using Arabic Script. Please, kindly, have a read and note your comments to discuss them during the meeting on Monday June 8th at 10:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting<https://icann.zoom.us/j/92404162907?pwd=di9ad2pjQWVpRTJOZ0wrMkZkc3Z2UT09> Meeting URL: https://icann.zoom.us/j/92404162907?pwd=di9ad2pjQWVpRTJOZ0wrMkZkc3Z2UT09 Meeting ID: 924 0416 2907 Password: 8N%3eysh86 The agenda of the meeting is attached. Looking forward to see you online. Best wishes, Nadira Alaraj & Tijani Ben Jemaa ME Space Co-Chairs

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Amazon Chinese & Japanese TLDs
by Andre Schappo June 3, 2020

June 3, 2020

Amazonʼs Chinese and Japanese TLDs are now in DNS root. http://nic.亚马逊 http://nic.アマゾン André Schappo

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FW: [ME Space] invite to discuss the statement on: UA and EAI for Arabic Script
by Fahd Batayneh June 2, 2020

June 2, 2020

Dear all, I hope that you are doing well, kindly find the final UA & EAI draft statement, kindly, have a read and note your comments to discuss them during the online meeting on Monday June 8th at 10:00 UTC “invitation attached”. Thanks a lot. All the Best, Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila Deputy Manager, Dot Masr Registry, Operation Sector. 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Where: https://icann.zoom.us/j/92404162907?pwd=di9ad2pjQWVpRTJOZ0wrMkZkc3Z2UT09 Dear Middle East Community members, We would like to share with your the attached final draft statement that was prepared by the drafting team lead by the two penholders Abdelmonem Galila and Zied Bouziri. Please, kindly, have a read and note your comments to discuss them during the online meeting on Monday June 8th at 10:00 UTC. Thanking Fahd Batayneh for preparing to us the Zoom meeting link below and the calendar invite. The agenda of the meeting will be send to you with the reminder. Looking forward to see you online. Best wishes, Nadira Alaraj Tijani Ben Jemaa ME Space Co-Chairs ---------- Forwarded message --------- [image.png] Hi there, Fahd Batayneh is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 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https://emailregex.com/
by Don Hollander May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

Anyone know anything about this? Apparently it's not fit for purpose and should be either fixed or withdrawn. John: How's the universal regex going in the IETF? Hope everyone out there is OK. Here in New Zealand we are emerging from our bubbles. So far, so good. Don

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Microsoft Pulling Support for 27 Languages on iOS apps
by Michele Neylon - Blacknight May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

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ICANN new preview website and a chance to inquire about IDN use
by Mark Datysgeld May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

Hello everyone, ICANN has put up a preview of its new website, which among other things seeks to be compliant with accessibility guidelines and other must-haves in this day and age. You can find it here: https://preview.icann.org/ This brought back to my mind a point made by Dusan, that ICANN should drink its own beverage, and start using IDNs and nGTLDs. While I am not hopeful they would make that their main domain (out of fear of lack of UA), they could sure use them for regional outreach campaigns and such. The current goal on the Feedback portal is to exactly inquire about the website refresh: https://feedback.icann.org/ I would like to ask the group about its interest in giving them collective feedback, maybe as a letter, requesting something along these lines: please use the entire range of domains you enable, to show that UA is really a priority. Best regards, -- 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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EuroDIG session
by Roberto Gaetano May 17, 2020

May 17, 2020

Hi all. Some of you know already EuroDIG - it is a conference on Internet Governance that is held yearly, where different topics are discussed. This year it will be held fully online, from 10 to 12 June - details here<https://www.eurodig.org/index.php?id=76>. One session will touch on Universal Acceptance<https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Universal_Acceptance_%E2%80%93_a_technical_or_…> but with a slightly different point of view. We would like to explore all aspects of “diversity” on the Internet that are related to language or script that can be a source of difficulties for the end users, ultimately reducing the ability for some people to access or to fully benefit from the Internet. The main point is that although there is a large technical component in Universal Acceptance - or the lack thereof - there is also a non negligible cultural factor. We would like to explore issues like multilingualism and local content on the Internet, ask ourselves whether this is in some way related to Universal Acceptance in the “classical” sense - i.e. the problems with some applications of the DNS - but also what are the impacts on, e.g., search engines or social media. To make an example, one question might be whether the search engines are affected by - and whether they take into account in the algorithms - cultural diversity. We believe that the discussion would benefit from the participation of experts that can describe how search engines, social platforms, or other applications that run “over” the fabrics of the Internet are affected by these cultural aspects. Can anybody in this group propose some points for discussion - or volunteer to give a presentation at EuroDIG? Thanks, Roberto

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Safe and Healthy - New Normal.
by Ajay Data May 16, 2020

May 16, 2020

Hello Everyone We all are witnessing a unique situation and trying to deal as New Normal. I hope that you and your family are safe and healthy. UASG is having our regular calls, virtual meetings going on for all WGs and our focus is also shifting to finalise New year's stretegic plan while reviewing what we have achieved till now. Thank you everyone for contributing to UASG. UASG is also going to have one session in ICANN68 and you will see that soon in ICANN Schedule. We will soon have our UA Community Update call. You will hear from me again soon. Just wanted to reach out to all of you to convey my wishes for staying healthy and safe. Beat wishes Dr. Ajay Data -- Sent from my Android device with XGen Email.

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[FYI] UA tutorial at IUC 44 conference [was: Unicode 44 - Save the Date!]
by Jim DeLaHunt May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

UA Colleagues: The program for the 44th Internationalization and Unicode Conference <https://www.unicodeconference.org/program.htm> has just been published, and I'm glad to be able to share with you that there is a Universal Acceptance talk included. It is the tutorial, /"Email Addresses and Domain Names are NON-Latin! Now What?" It will be an introduction to UA, IDNs, and EAI people who don't know much about any of them./ /More details at the link above, or in the email below./ /Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada/ -------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 08:02:47 -0600 Subject: Unicode 44 - Save the Date! From: Mike Narducci <mike(a)omg.org> Reply-To: mike(a)omg.org To: IUC 43 Conference To see this message in your browser click *here <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/eting-IUC44-Program-051020-htm/2j57xy/1…>* Internationalization & Unicode Conference 44. 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Re: [UA-discuss] New UA Resource: UASG027
by Sarmad Hussain May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

Thank you Lars, that is a good point. We will check and clarify further. Regards, Sarmad From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Lars Steffen <lars.steffen(a)eco.de> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 8:21 PM To: Jane Sexton <jane.sexton(a)icann.org>, "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] New UA Resource: UASG027 Dear Jane, dear all who worked on this, It´s great to see an update on this evaluation! Just one thing: The geoTLDs for the city of Cologne (Köln) are “.cologne” and “.koeln”. There is not TLD “.köln” with a German Umlaut in the TLD (https://nic.koeln/en) So the given example “süß(a)xn--schnes-yxa.xn--kln-sna1990b needs to be adapted accordingly. If “süß(a)xn--schnes-yxa.xn--kln-sna1990b has been used for the evaluation itself, this might have biased the results for Germany. All the best, Lars Von: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org> Im Auftrag von Jane Sexton Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2020 19:34 An: ua-discuss(a)icann.org Betreff: [UA-discuss] New UA Resource: UASG027 Hi All – The UASG has just published UASG027<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG027-en-digital.pdf> – Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020. Please help promote and share on your channels if possible. @UASGTech: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1260258814017728514?s=20 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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