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AUTO: Ahmed Bakhat Masood is out of the office. (returning 03/12/2015)
by Ahmed Bakhat Masood March 10, 2015

March 10, 2015

I am out of the office until 03/12/2015. I will not be able to respond to your mail. For urgent queries, please contact Mr. Shageel Ahmed Dy Director (ICT) at shargeel(a)pta.gov.pk or Mr. Anwar Zeb IT Officer at anwar(a)pta.gov.pk Note: This is an automated response to your message "UA-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 6" sent on 03/10/2015 5:00:04 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Community Outreach Project Group
by Lars Steffen March 10, 2015

March 10, 2015

The agenda by Don (thank you!) shows, that the working groups still need staffing. So I would like to offer my support. My name is Lars Steffen (www.linkedin.com/in/larssteffen) and I am currently working for eco Association of the German Internet Industry (www.international.eco.de) With around 800 member companies, it is the largest internet industry association in Europe. Together with Thomas Rickert, who some of you know from GNSO and CCWG, I am responsible for the eco Names & Numbers Forum as a Member Services Manager based in Cologne, Germany. The eco Names & Numbers Forum unites world-wide more than 120 registries, registrars, resellers, secondary market companies and consultants from the domain industry (www.numbers.eco.de/international.html) To represent the interests of our members from the domain industry, we are active in a range of committees, including EuroISPA (European Internet Service Providers Association), ICANN (GNSO, ISPCP, ICG, CCWG), IETF, IGF and EuroDIG. eco also runs DE-CIX (www.de-cix.net) the worlds leading Internet exchange point and the Certified Senders Alliance (www.certified-senders.eu) With this background of valuable networks and due to the fact that UA is a very important issue for a respectable number of eco members, I´d like to join the Community Outreach Project Group to contribute Business community & consumer outreach. After working for eco for 15 months and attending three ICANN meetings so far, for me this will be the first engagement in an ICANN working group. So I will both try to do my best supporting the UASGs goals and appreciate any advice for ICANN rookies :) Before joining eco I worked six years for a smaller ISP and Registrar/Reseller iWelt AG in Franconia, Germany (www.iwelt.de) in different positions: head of Marketing/Communications, head of Web Development, head of Sales.

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e-mail Archives of this list are now public...
by Don Hollander March 9, 2015

March 9, 2015

Further to the action item from the last conference call and subsequent notification to this list, without objection, the archives are now publicly available. The archives are now publicly available http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/ Don

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Doodle Poll for Conference call and Updated Agenda
by Don Hollander March 7, 2015

March 7, 2015

There been some confusion (on my part) about the time zone for the last Doodle Poll. So, to be clear, attached please find a link to a revised poll based on UTC: http://doodle.com/pq2nzkmcqvcc5pwh Also attached is a revised DRAFT Agenda. Please note that there is no time shown. That is the purpose of the Doodle Poll. Please also note the following: - The deadline for comments on the draft Charter has passed and Christian has taken the comments and suggestions into account to produce what may be the final version. - There is still time to put forward a nomination for one of the leadership positions - The mailing list archives will be made public since I’ve heard no objection. - There is already an ICANN Wiki - https://community.icann.org/display/TUA/TLD+Universal+Acceptance+Home and it has been going for quite a long time. - I now have an ICANN e-mail address. don.hollander(a)icann.org<mailto:don.hollander@icann.org> My old e-mail address still works. Don

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Re: [UA-discuss] Candidate SOIs - Edmon
by Edmon Chung March 7, 2015

March 7, 2015

For me: ========================= Edmon Chung ========================= I am currently serving as the CEO of DotAsia Organisation, which is the Sponsoring Organization for the ".ASIA" gTLD. DotAsia is a not-for-profit organisation with an open membership to ccTLDs in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. .CN, .JP, .KR, .IN, .IR, .NZ, etc., some are members of the ccNSO and/or GAC, and regional internet organizations, e.g. APNIC, APTLD, APRALO, APNG, APCERT, etc., APNIC is an RIR, APTLD is an observer at ccNSO and APRALO is a RALO of At-Large (http://www.dot.asia/dotasia-organisation/community-governance/#dotasiamembe rs). DotAsia is a major shareholder of: Namesphere Holdings Ltd., which has shareholdings and/or serve as a registry service provider for a number of new gTLDs; and, HNET.Asia Ltd. which is the registry operator for the .MO ccTLD for Macau. I am also serving as a director for Internet Society Hong Kong (ISOC HK). ISOC HK is an ALS in APRALO and also serves as its secretariat. From: ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Richard Merdinger Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 6:30 AM To: Christian Dawson; UA-discuss(a)icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Candidate SOIs - CHRISTIAN DAWSON And mine here. https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Richard+Merdinger+SOI Best, --Rich Richard Merdinger VP, Domains e: <mailto:rmerdinger@godaddy.com> rmerdinger(a)godaddy.com s: richard.merdinger m: 319.530.4100 From: ua-discuss-bounces(a)icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Christian Dawson Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 10:27 AM To: UA-discuss(a)icann.org <mailto:UA-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Candidate SOIs - CHRISTIAN DAWSON Colleagues, Candidates have been requested to provide links to their Statements of Interest. Mine is here: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Christian+Dawson+SOI Thanks! Christian Dawson Chairman & Co-founder Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) c: 703 623 2612 <http://i2coalition.com/> http://i2coalition.com PGP: 22DF5493 Fingerprint: 7C95 A3BE 1E10 4864 8417 DCED B9E1 C8FD 22DF 5493

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Draft Agenda
by Don Hollander March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015

With Christian now working to finalise the Draft Charter and nominations still open for the leadership position, it will be useful to develop the agenda for next week’s call. I offer the following as a point of departure: Attendance and Apologies Review of notes and action points from the previous call Review of Draft Charter Review of leadership position nominations and procedures going forward Review and populating of the working groups. Other Your contribution would be most welcome. Don Hollander

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Candidate SOIs - CHRISTIAN DAWSON
by Christian Dawson March 5, 2015

March 5, 2015

Colleagues, Candidates have been requested to provide links to their Statements of Interest. Mine is here: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Christian+Dawson+SOI <https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Christian+Dawson+SOI> Thanks! Christian Dawson Chairman & Co-founder Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) c: 703 623 2612 http://i2coalition.com <http://i2coalition.com/> PGP: 22DF5493 Fingerprint: 7C95 A3BE 1E10 4864 8417 DCED B9E1 C8FD 22DF 5493

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Candidate SOI - Ram Mohan
by Ram Mohan March 5, 2015

March 5, 2015

Here is mine: https://www.icann.org/profiles/ram-mohan Ram is an Employee Officer of Afilias, which is a contracted party with ICANN and which is under contract for services to registry operators that are under contract to ICANN. Ram is the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Internet Society. Afilias is the registry service provider for the Public Interest Registry, operator of .ORG, .NGO, .ONG and several IDN TLDs. Ram’s sister-in-law is the owner and CEO of a small boutique ICANN accredited registrar. Afilias is a minority shareholder in ICM Registry, Inc. Afilias is involved in some way in numerous new gTLD applications. -Ram *From:* Christian Dawson [mailto:dawson@i2coalition.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 05, 2015 11:27 AM *To:* UA-discuss(a)icann.org *Subject:* [UA-discuss] Candidate SOIs - CHRISTIAN DAWSON Colleagues, Candidates have been requested to provide links to their Statements of Interest. Mine is here: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/Christian+Dawson+SOI Thanks! Christian Dawson *Chairman & Co-founder* Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) c: 703 623 2612 http://i2coalition.com PGP: 22DF5493 Fingerprint: 7C95 A3BE 1E10 4864 8417 DCED B9E1 C8FD 22DF 5493

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Regarding "RTL"
by Mark Svancarek March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015

Hi, I had some questions regarding my recent usage of the term “RTL”. By this I mean “right to left”, a characteristic of Arabic and Hebrew. At Microsoft we also call this “bidi” (bidirectional). Here’s a discussion regarding RTL. (I’ve also attached a much more detailed explanation, which includes Microsoft’s recommendations, but it’s in PowerPoint. Hopefully you already use a compatible viewer.) Bidi display of IRIs (URLs/URIs) Bidirectional display of IRIs (an IRI with some Right-To-Left characters, eg: Arabic) has some odd quirks. There’s an IETF WG working on creating an IRI RFC. It’d be nice if we could help ensure that there were reasonable standards for the display of bidi IRIs. The existing IRI drafts suggest using the Unicode Bidi Algorithm to display IRIs, but that has some problems. User and government feedback indicates that our current behavior is a bit unexpected. Currently we have some odd quirks about the display of Bidi IRIs in Microsoft. This is just an example, other places may have different odd quirks. Logical Order IE with LTR context IE with RTL context http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com http://اا1اا.بب2بب.ةة3ةة http://اا1اا.بب2بب.ةة3ةة http://اا1اا.بب2بب.ةة3ةة http://a1a.اا2اا.بب3بب.d4d http://a1a.اا2اا.بب3بب.d4d http://a1a.اا2اا.بب3بب.d4d http://اا1اا.b2b.c3c.بب4بب http://اا1اا.b2b.c3c.بب4بب http://اا1اا.b2b.c3c.بب4بب As we can see, the order of some of the elements may seem counter-intuitive. The highlighted sections start in one direction, but then jump or rearrange direction so that the elements don’t follow the same order. The Unicode Bidi algorithm has the idea that some characters aren’t inherently RTL or LTR. Instead they take on the properties of the characters surrounding them. This is why some pairs get “flipped” in the rendered order. User Expectations Limited usability investigations have demonstrated that users expect IRIs and other paths to be in the form of an ordered list. The “separators” of the various fields vary, but the entire unit is treated as a list. E.g.: http://www.microsoft.com is a list { “http”, “www”, “microsoft”, “com” }. Users expect it to be rendered “in order” with the first element, then second, etc. What is a bit unclear is exactly which direction the users expect the lists to be rendered in. There seem to be 2 main options for what users expect: · Always render the path elements from Left to Right (e.g. “www.microsoft.com<http://www.microsoft.com>”) regardless of the script. · Always render the path elements from Right to Left in a Bidi context (application), e.g.: “com.microsoft.www//:http”, EVEN FOR ASCII IRIs. We need to confirm what the user expectations are for Bidi Display, and ensure that any edits to IETF IRI standards match those expectations.

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UASG Draft Charter
by Christian Dawson March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015

Colleagues, Here is a link to a copy of a UASG Draft Charter for community review. The ability to comment has been turned on. The ability to directly edit the document has been turned off for now. The goal at this stage isn’t to wordsmith the Charter but to discuss its scope and core concepts. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4Y6AkpPjlCHBw50sfFXIegTuEOCeeXfv1l_tp4… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D4Y6AkpPjlCHBw50sfFXIegTuEOCeeXfv1l_tp4…> I hope this is a good jumping off point for a successful UASG. See you all on the call in a few minutes. All the best, Christian Dawson Chairman & Co-founder Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) c: 703 623 2612 http://i2coalition.com <http://i2coalition.com/> PGP: 26F8DBD8 Fingerprint: 35A1 12C9 8CBC 8F72 3706 52EA 23F2 CA0C 26F8 DBD8

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