[UA-discuss] Report on UA @ ICANN53

Elaine Pruis elaine at donuts.email
Sat Jul 4 05:37:06 UTC 2015


Thanks for the update Don.
Elaine

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
wrote:

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> Follows a report on UA activities @ ICANN53.
>
> *Universal Acceptance @ ICANN53*
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> *Prepared by*
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> *Don Hollander*
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> As many as fifty people at any point in time attended the first Universal
> Acceptance Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN53 meeting in Buenos Aires.
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> It was the first opportunity for the UASG and it’s project groups to meet
> face to face to assess achievements to date and plan for the next trimester.
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> UASG Chair Ram Mohan went through the formative processes of the UASG
> since January 2015.
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> Since the seed was germinated in January, the idea of the UASG has
> coalesced, was affirmed at the ICANN52 meeting in Singapore, chartered,
> project groups formed, leaders selected and work started.
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> The workshop also heard from ICANN’s CIO Ashwin Rangan about the real
> world complexities that a CIO faces to make their organization UA Ready.
> For many, this insight into the real world were very welcome.
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>
>
> *Topline & Technical *
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> This group identified two substantial, priority issues that need to be
> addressed.
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> -       There’s a very real need to get Email Address
> Internationalization (EAI) software further developed and deployed.  With
> Microsoft and Google active members of the UASG the group wanted to put
> focus on the other very large e-mail service and software providers – such
> as 163.com, Yandex, Yahoo, Coremail and others.
>
> -       Another very real need is to develop and publish specifications
> and good practice guides aimed at Systems Architects and programmers.  And
> associated with this is the need to get some sample code libraries available
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>
>
> *International*
>
> The International group has its focus on the IDN ecosystem and its target
> audience is the small and medium size developers. The end goal of this
> group is to develop guides, tools and widgets to drive adoption of IDNs.
> During the workshop, the group identified some near and long term goals.
>
> -       Among the near term goals is the compilation of good practices
> about handling of confusable characters to minimize spoofing of domain
> names
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> -       For long-term goals the group identified several initiatives. To
> name a few: next generation IDN guidelines, discuss a transition plan for
> full IDNA2008 support by browsers, draft recommendation to standardized
> browser behavior with IDNs.
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> *Measurement & Monitoring*
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> This group is going to develop a seat of measures, both objective and
> subjective.   The group re-affirmed its desire to make sure that it’s
> efforts were people focused.   And the group will also work on some method
> to capture non-compliant environments and reach out to the relevant
> responsible party.
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>
>
> *Community Outreach*
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> The Community Outreach group wanted to focus on substantive and achievable
> results during the next trimester.   Taking their riding instructions from
> the other groups on where to focus, they will work on the following two
> projects:
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> -       Reaching out to very large e-mail service and software suppliers
> to encourage EAI compliance.
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> -       Developing a communications package for the smaller organisations
> that the International group wants to target.
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> The Community Outreach group will also look at UA Branding and newsletters
> and other activities as resources permit.
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> In addition to the UA Workshop, a number of other UA sessions were held:
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> UA Updates were presented to:
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> ·      The LACDNS Forum
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> ·      The Registries
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> ·      The Registrars
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> ·      The ISPs
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> ·      The ccNSO
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> ·      The geoTLD Group
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> The UA Public Forum was held with a repeat of Ram’s presentation at the
> workshop and Ashwin’s presentation on ICANN IT’s activities as well as an
> update from the four project groups on the output from Sunday.
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> At the UA Public Forum we also heard of work that David Conrad’s group
> within ICANN is doing to test reachability of new gTLDs.
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