All, The mission for the UASG was always been to support theconcept that all domain names should be treated equally and has evolved toinclude email addresses (including Email Address Internationalization). Inspiteof the extensive support of ICANN and so qualified experts engaged from pastfour years in UASG we were still not able to achieve the desired awareness anddocumentations which would have helped adoption of UA, IDN’s and EAI. Available information and documents on uasg.tech do notaddress all open questions and the effort does not reflect a “missionaccomplished.” Infact the efforts and deliverables to date from theexisting administrative group is not at all visible. As a matter of greatsurprise the members of existing administrative group even failed to make theirown businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready till date with is decidedlydiscouraging for the community and have great question mark on theirleadership, dedication and focus for UA. I individually believes that if there will be no change ofindividuals in existing administrative group and people just swap the positionsfor namesake then I seriously don’t see that anything will change in UASG approachto promote the development and adoption of recommended practices and deployableassets that will enable the currently excluded ones to get online andexperience the wealth of opportunity that a natively accessible internet canprovide. What I as membersof UASG community expect from new administrative group: - They must lead with example and make clear Commitment to make their own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready without any more delay. - Effectively impart the value and potential benefits of adopting UA outside of a small set of engaged providers and must have a help/support available for them. - Dedicate their team and official’s to advocate the concepts of UA and encourage its adoption widely in every region. - Dedicate their complete focus on IDN and EAI. These are very important efforts within the UA agenda and should get substantial resources / industry experts for its further expansion of supporting technologies. - Develop meaningful materials to provide quality guidance for implementers and solution providers. - Use UASG funds wisely in outreach, communications and awareness component of IDNs, EAI, which has completely lacked over the past four years. I suggest everyone in the group mustgenuinely think and then support any individual for any positionchair/vice-chairs, there is no impairment if we seriously think to have a verystrong dedicated and focused individuals now in the administrative group sothat what we were unable to achieve in last four years do not happen again. What we should consider is to givechance to those strong think tanks who can help internet community on bringingthe mission of Universal Acceptance to a strong and successful result. Fouryears period is not small period which we have given to existing individualspresently involved in administrative group and we are still nowhere. Sincerely, Alexey Chief of Information & Technology From: Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> To: "ua-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org> Subject: [UA-discuss] Call for Nominations Date: 20 Feb 2019 09:22:45 AM Elections for UASG Chair and Vice-Chair – 2019 The UASG is having elections for the Chair and Vice Chair. Here’s the process. NB: All times are 23:00 UTC Nominations This is a call for nominations. Anyone subscribed to the UA-discuss@icann.org mailing list is eligible to stand. Nominations (including self-nominations) should be sent to info@uasg.techand should include: - the name of the person nominated - the position(s) for which they are nominated - contact details for the person nominated. This should include an email address and a telephone number. The election administrator will verify that the nominated person accepts the nomination. Once the nomination deadline has passed on February 27 2019 a list of candidates will be prepared showing name, email address, photo and candidate statement. Names will be shown by position in alphabetical order of surnames. Candidates can be nominated for Chair, Vice-Chair or both. Relevant links: - Position Description-Chair https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Chair-U... - Position Description-Vice-Chair https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07-Position-Description-Vice-Ch... Other documents of interest may be found at www.uasg.tech/documents Voting Voting will be done using www.opavote.com For the Chair the method used will be Instant Runoff Voting https://www.opavote.com/methods/instant-runoff-voting For the Vice-Chair the method used will be Scottish STV https://www.opavote.com/methods/single-transferable-vote#scottish-stv These voting methods allow voters to rank their choices. Voting will open on March 3, 2019 and close on March 10, 2019. Decisions will be announced as soon as they are ready and have been verified. Don Hollander Secretary General – UASG Skype: Don_Hollander