All,
The mission for the UASG was always been to support the concept that all domain names should be treated equally and has evolved to include email addresses (including Email Address Internationalization). Inspite of the extensive support of ICANN and so qualified experts engaged from past four years in UASG we were still not able to achieve the desired awareness and documentations which would have helped adoption of UA, IDN’s and EAI.
Available information and documents on uasg.tech do not address all open questions and the effort does not reflect a “mission accomplished.”
Infact the efforts and deliverables to date from the existing administrative group is not at all visible. As a matter of great surprise the members of existing administrative group even failed to make their own businesses / organizations Universal acceptance ready till date with is decidedly discouraging for the community and have great question mark on their leadership, dedication and focus for UA.
I individually believes that if there will be no change of individuals in existing administrative group and people just swap the positions for namesake then I seriously don’t see that anything will change in UASG approach to promote the development and adoption of recommended practices and deployable assets that will enable the currently excluded ones to get online and experience the wealth of opportunity that a natively accessible internet can provide.
What I as members of UASG community expect from new administrative group:
I suggest everyone in the group must genuinely think and then support any individual for any position chair/vice-chairs, there is no impairment if we seriously think to have a very strong dedicated and focused individuals now in the administrative group so that what we were unable to achieve in last four years do not happen again.
What we should consider is to give chance to those strong think tanks who can help internet community on bringing the mission of Universal Acceptance to a strong and successful result. Four years period is not small period which we have given to existing individuals presently involved in administrative group and we are still nowhere.
Sincerely,
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
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 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:
Other documents of interest may be found at www.uasg.tech/documents
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