Nice job Christian with the public forum intervention regarding the UASG effort. Here is a transcript of what Steve Crocker, ICANN Board Chair said in response: Yeah, thanks. This is a great effort. Although it is unintended, it's actually two meanings to that. This is a very important effort, and it is extremely positive step that this has been formed. And we're quite excited about it. It's been a nagging problem from the earliest days when the first new tlds that were more than three characters, although they were all in ASCII added and now we are in a more complicated world in idns. It is also a great effort in that it will take a great amount of effort over a long period of time. And I think we all need to understand that this is not a one-shot, get in there and fix it quickly sort of thing. But a campaign that has to be waged continuously engaging a variety of vendors and a variety of implementers and users and enterprises, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And so it's an important element and one that I think will take multiple parties but certainly from the ICANN perspective, we will do everything we can to foster it and support it. *From:* Christian Dawson [mailto:dawson@i2coalition.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:01 PM *To:* Ram Mohan *Cc:* Edmon Chung; UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] Call for UASG letter Me too thanks all! Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote: I like it, good to go from my p.o.v. *From:* Edmon Chung [mailto:edmon@registry.asia] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:46 PM *To:* 'Christian Dawson'; 'Ram Mohan SMTP' *Cc:* UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* RE: [UA-discuss] Call for UASG letter My suggested edits for the public forum statement. Edmon *From:* ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org>] *On Behalf Of *Christian Dawson *Sent:* Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:33 AM *To:* Ram Mohan SMTP *Cc:* UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] Call for UASG letter Colleagues, See attached UASG draft public comment for the public forum today. All the best, Christian Dawson *Chairman & Co-founder* Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2C) c: 703 623 2612 http://i2coalition.com