Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet
From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts. The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups. The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address. “The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains. Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is. Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN. Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity. Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India. “We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan. Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants. There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses. “I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan. For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias <http://www.afilias.info/> Ireland|Canada|USA|India|Australia|China (o) +1.215.706.5700 x103 (m) +1.215.431.0958 (f) +1.215.706.5701 rmohan@afilias.info | Skype: gliderpilot30 | Twitter @rmohan123 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fantastic, Ram! Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info>> wrote:
From today's newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.moneycontrol.com_ne...> Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts. The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the "telephone directory" of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups. The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address. "The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains. Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is. Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN. Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity. Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India. "We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages," said Mohan. Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants. There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses. "I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side," said Mohan. For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com<mailto:ram@mohan.com>, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias [afilias.info]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.afilias.info_&d=DwMF...> Ireland|Canada|USA|India|Australia|China (o) +1.215.706.5700 x103 (m) +1.215.431.0958 (f) +1.215.706.5701 rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info> | Skype: gliderpilot30 | Twitter @rmohan123 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Ua-comms-wg mailing list Ua-comms-wg@icann.org<mailto:Ua-comms-wg@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms-wg
Hi Ram, Thank you for sharing. We'll be sure to promote the news across UASG social accounts as well. Thanks Paige From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Gwen Carlson Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 1:13 PM To: Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> Cc: ua-coordination@icann.org; Ua-comms-wg@icann.org; UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] [Ua-comms-wg] Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet Fantastic, Ram! Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info>> wrote:
From today's newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....> Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts. The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the "telephone directory" of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups. The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address. "The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers," said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains. Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is. Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN. Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity. Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India. "We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages," said Mohan. Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants. There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses. "I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side," said Mohan. For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com<mailto:ram@mohan.com>, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias [afilias.info]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....> Ireland|Canada|USA|India|Australia|China (o) +1.215.706.5700 x103 (m) +1.215.431.0958 (f) +1.215.706.5701 rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info> | Skype: gliderpilot30 | Twitter @rmohan123 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Ua-comms-wg mailing list Ua-comms-wg@icann.org<mailto:Ua-comms-wg@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms-wg<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmm.icann.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fua-comms-wg&data=02%7C01%7Cpaige.huff%40edelman.com%7C0767dc7f27594f24172408d5bc32aa6f%7Cb824bfb3918e43c2bb1cdcc1ba40a82b%7C0%7C0%7C636621848159432121&sdata=d%2BK7AtOFVhW%2BjYoJHxXEdXjdBQjrCqyzLSN3YFutwek%3D&reserved=0>
Despite the challenges I reaching decision makers, this is good progress by India. Congratulations Ram. Sivasubramanian M On Thu, May 17, 2018, 4:13 PM Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> wrote:
Fantastic, Ram!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:
From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.moneycontrol.com_ne...>
Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts.
The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups.
The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address.
“The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains.
Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is.
Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN.
Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity.
Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India.
“We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan.
Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants.
There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses.
“I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan.
For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues.
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The quote implies that Microsoft is behind Google on EAI, but we are now at parity. From: UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Sivasubramanian M Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 13:21 To: Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> Cc: ua-coordination@icann.org; Ua-comms-wg@icann.org; UA-discuss@icann.org Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] [Ua-comms-wg] Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet Despite the challenges I reaching decision makers, this is good progress by India. Congratulations Ram. Sivasubramanian M On Thu, May 17, 2018, 4:13 PM Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org<mailto:gwen.carlson@icann.org>> wrote: Fantastic, Ram! Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info>> wrote: From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance. -Ram https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....> Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts. The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups. The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address. “The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains. Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is. Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN. Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity. Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India. “We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan. Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants. There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses. “I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan. For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com<mailto:ram@mohan.com>, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias [afilias.info]<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....> Ireland|Canada|USA|India|Australia|China (o) +1.215.706.5700 x103 (m) +1.215.431.0958 (f) +1.215.706.5701 rmohan@afilias.info<mailto:rmohan@afilias.info> | Skype: gliderpilot30 | Twitter @rmohan123 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Ua-comms-wg mailing list Ua-comms-wg@icann.org<mailto:Ua-comms-wg@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms-wg<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmm.icann.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fua-comms-wg&data=02%7C01%7Cmarksv%40microsoft.com%7Cca252d6f48b8484fb6a208d5bc341e45%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636621854413869626&sdata=Go2yuCSmaHiOYF0cvQRFCE6gvbyh5dqGN2KBnoILiFY%3D&reserved=0>
Hi Ram, What the news misses is most building blocks of indian language interenet technology is built by independent volunteer contributors and foss communities. Apart from FOSS communities , Google , Redhat and Wikimedia have their shares in foss part . and Microsoft have their shares in standards part. And Mucrosoft have their shares in standards and opentype part. This enabled solution for indian language complex script display and processing and enabled indian language web and internet. Projecting EAI as "indian language internet" is simply a tall caim. No matter whoever do that. Looks like the CIO teamup with NIXI & IAMAI as per the report is ignoring the langauge civictech communities who built Indian language web and internet Anivar Aravind https://smc.org.in On Fri 18 May, 2018, 10:19 PM Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss, < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:
The quote implies that Microsoft is behind Google on EAI, but we are now at parity.
*From:* UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Sivasubramanian M *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2018 13:21 *To:* Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> *Cc:* ua-coordination@icann.org; Ua-comms-wg@icann.org; UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] [Ua-comms-wg] Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet
Despite the challenges I reaching decision makers, this is good progress by India. Congratulations Ram.
Sivasubramanian M
On Thu, May 17, 2018, 4:13 PM Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> wrote:
Fantastic, Ram!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:
From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com] <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....>
Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts.
The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups.
The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address.
“The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains.
Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is.
Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN.
Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity.
Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India.
“We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan.
Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants.
There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses.
“I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan.
For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues.
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Anivar There is no question that all these solutions are a group effort; there is neither an intent to ignore nor an attempt to. Credit where credit is due. That EAI enables Indian language internet is not a tall claim. That IDN enables Indian language internet is not a tall claim, either. The logic of the argument holds together; EAI is not Indian language internet, but without giving people the ability to type "Ram@Mohan.Bharat" in Hindi and have it be processed correctly by Outlook and Google search, Indian language on the DNS, from the lay person point of view, is not enabled. As to the other communities to be touched, I agree more work is to be done. However, the prime focus of this effort is to reach key decision makers at corporates, who direct resources towards fixing basic UA issues like linkability or tld validation rules. Ram On Fri, May 18, 2018, 10:36 PM Anivar Aravind <anivar@indicproject.org> wrote:
Hi Ram,
What the news misses is most building blocks of indian language interenet technology is built by independent volunteer contributors and foss communities. Apart from FOSS communities , Google , Redhat and Wikimedia have their shares in foss part . and Microsoft have their shares in standards part. And Mucrosoft have their shares in standards and opentype part.
This enabled solution for indian language complex script display and processing and enabled indian language web and internet. Projecting EAI as "indian language internet" is simply a tall caim. No matter whoever do that.
Looks like the CIO teamup with NIXI & IAMAI as per the report is ignoring the langauge civictech communities who built Indian language web and internet
Anivar Aravind https://smc.org.in
On Fri 18 May, 2018, 10:19 PM Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss, < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:
The quote implies that Microsoft is behind Google on EAI, but we are now at parity.
*From:* UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Sivasubramanian M *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2018 13:21 *To:* Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> *Cc:* ua-coordination@icann.org; Ua-comms-wg@icann.org; UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] [Ua-comms-wg] Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet
Despite the challenges I reaching decision makers, this is good progress by India. Congratulations Ram.
Sivasubramanian M
On Thu, May 17, 2018, 4:13 PM Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> wrote:
Fantastic, Ram!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:
From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/experts-organisations-come-toge... [moneycontrol.com] <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....>
Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts.
The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups.
The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address.
“The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains.
Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is.
Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN.
Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity.
Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India.
“We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan.
Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants.
There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses.
“I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan.
For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Mohan Executive Vice President & CTO Afilias [afilias.info] <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense....> Ireland|Canada|USA|India|Australia|China (o) +1.215.706.5700 x103 (m) +1.215.431.0958 (f) +1.215.706.5701 rmohan@afilias.info | Skype: gliderpilot30 | Twitter @rmohan123
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Mark, the part of the quote that got left out was my saying exactly that, that Microsoft mail is fully supporting. The reporter left it out. On Fri, May 18, 2018, 10:19 PM Mark Svancarek via Ua-comms-wg < ua-comms-wg@icann.org> wrote:
The quote implies that Microsoft is behind Google on EAI, but we are now at parity.
*From:* UA-discuss [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] *On Behalf Of *Sivasubramanian M *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2018 13:21 *To:* Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> *Cc:* ua-coordination@icann.org; Ua-comms-wg@icann.org; UA-discuss@icann.org *Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] [Ua-comms-wg] Experts, organisations come together to build Indian language Internet
Despite the challenges I reaching decision makers, this is good progress by India. Congratulations Ram.
Sivasubramanian M
On Thu, May 17, 2018, 4:13 PM Gwen Carlson <gwen.carlson@icann.org> wrote:
Fantastic, Ram!
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On May 17, 2018, at 1:12 PM, Ram Mohan <rmohan@afilias.info> wrote:
From today’s newspaper update in India, where I am for a couple of days. Could not let the opportunity slip to speak a bit about Universal Acceptance.
-Ram
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Stakeholders across the board are coming together to help build Indian language capability on the Internet, a complex problem in India given the diverse languages and scripts.
The UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is a multi-stakeholder group under the aegis of the “telephone directory” of the Internet-- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It consists of members from more than 120 companies including Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, governments and community groups.
The work that UASG is doing will ensure, for example, that an email address in the Hindi script is identified as an email domain, and the receiver is able to see the emails sent from this address.
“The biggest challenge is in reaching the decision makers,” said Ram Mohan, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Afilias, one of the world's most well-known technology service providers for Internet domains.
Explaining why universal acceptance is important, Mohan said an investment in the local languages is about making sure that all applications, operating systems, chat applications and social media applications are able to recognise what a new domain name is.
Mohan noted it is particularly important as even if one types out an email address in the Hindi script it is identified as an email address and automatically underlined in blue. Similarly, if one is typing it in Microsoft word, it should automatically become a link. Mohan is also a Board member at ICANN.
Last year, a study by Analysys Mason found that online revenue opportunity in enabling local languages was a $9.8 billion growth opportunity.
Go get around the issue of reaching decision makers, Afilias has partnered with the Internet and Mobile Association of India and the National Internet Exchange of India.
“We worked with Google and Gmail has completed their programme. It completely accepts internationalised email now. We are also in the middle of working with Microsoft to have Outlook also support Indic languages,” said Mohan.
Over the past couple of years, there has been an increased focus on voice-based technology for search and other products. Big technology companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, all have their voice assistants.
There is also talk of domain names losing their relevance in the world of curated content when people seldom type out entire web addresses.
“I have so much hope in the future of voice in Internet technology. It will solve stuff on the input side,” said Mohan.
For instance, if you tell Cortana or Siri or Alexa to send an email to an address with letters in Hindi, it may not understand this is an email address. If you say ram@mohan.com, it will know. UASG is looking at sorting out these issues.
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