Jim, Would be good to see your comments on Don’s proposal, and edits so we can move this idea forward. -Ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ram Mohan o: +1.215.706.5700 x103; m: +1.215.431.0958; f: +1.215.706.5701 Skype:gliderpilot30 |@rmohan123|www.linkedin.com/in/rmohan *From:* Don Hollander [mailto:don.hollander@icann.org] *Sent:* Sunday, March 12, 2017 1:44 AM *To:* Jim DeLaHunt <jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com> *Cc:* ua-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] UA at IUC? [or: Call for Participation Announced! - 41st Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 16-18, 2017] Jim, If you’re familiar with the process and nature, please do go ahead and create a proposal. We can help with collateral, presentations, and a speaker. Perhaps the following: An introduction to Universal Acceptance Two marked changes in the Internet name space have occurred, but are not widely adopted. Hundreds of new Top Level Domains (including IDNs) and support for non-ascii mailbox names in email (EAI - Email Address Internationalisation) This presentation will provide an introduction to the topics, an introduction to the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG - www.uasg.tech) and the work that is underway to provide documentation, resources, and mitigation efforts. The presentation will actively seek out participants from the conference attendees who will be able to share what they learn when they return home. —— Internationalisation and Unicode in domain names and email addresses - practical steps toward universal acceptance This presentation will introduce Universal Acceptance and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG - www.uasg.tech) and outline the work that is underway to facilitate acceptance of all domain names and all email addresses. — Perhaps something else. Don On 12/03/2017, at 1:21 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com> wrote: Hello, colleagues: I'm a big fan of, and regular participant in, the annual Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC), brought to us by the people who brought us Unicode. I imagine that people who are interested in Universal Acceptance are likely to be interested in this conference, and may well have important contributions they could make to it. So, #1, I'd like to make everyone in UASG aware that the IUC has a call for participation. The deadline for proposals is Friday, 24. March, 2017. Please consider proposing a talk if you have something that the IUC audience would benefit from. And, #2, I don't recall there being a proper presentation of the UASG activity at the IUC conference. (Dave Crocker gave a 5-minute "lightning talk" about Universal Acceptance and the UASG, but that was barely enough time to say that it existed.) I would like to see a proposal about the Universal Acceptance Initiative submitted to the conference this year. If someone is already working on this, I would like to talk to you off-list and see if it makes sense to work together. If there is no existing effort, I would like to start one. I welcome collaboration. I will see to it that a proposal gets submitted. 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