[UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UMASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs

Ram Mohan rmohan at afilias.info
Wed Sep 16 15:49:48 UTC 2015


Mark & Jothan,

Thank you for the comments.



Let me see if I can get the author of the study to dial into our meeting
for some time tomorrow or Friday, so we can address the issues directly,
and perhaps learn more as well.



-Ram



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*From:* Jothan Frakes [mailto:jothan at jothan.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 16, 2015 11:35 AM
*To:* Mark Svancarek <marksv at microsoft.com>
*Cc:* rmohan at afilias. info <rmohan at afilias.info>; UA-discuss at icann.org
*Subject:* Re: [UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce
Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs



I appreciate the report, and hope it will ultimately drive more awareness
and resourcing that are sorely needed.

I am not speaking in an official capacity for Mozilla, but based upon my
unique perspective related to their handling of IDN, I have some concerns
on IDN methodology, specifically as it relates to the results with Mozilla
Firefox and Flash behavior  -  there are versions that behave differently
in combination.

As a general comment, there are some deliberate and well-vetted security
protections and behavior that is based upon installed languages of the
user, and these factors may certainly have skewed the fail level reported.

On Sep 15, 2015 10:32 AM, "Mark Svancarek" <marksv at microsoft.com> wrote:

I have some methodology concerns regarding IE (very under-represented,
version not listed, Adobe plug-in version not listed) but otherwise this
seems informative.



*From:* ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] *On
Behalf Of *Ram Mohan
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 15, 2015 7:38 AM
*To:* UA-discuss at icann.org
*Subject:* [UA-discuss] FW: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce
Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs


News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en
------------------------------
ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs

14 September 2015

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444>
announced the availability of a new report: *An Analysis of New gTLD
Universal Acceptance*. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing
all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in
any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other
Internet application on any computer or electronic device. The report,
sponsored by ICANN, is available here
<http://www.potaroo.net/reports/Universal-Acceptance/UA-Report.pdf> [PDF,
1.63 MB].

APNIC Labs, the research arm of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
(APNIC) <https://www.apnic.net/>, conducted the tests and analysis, which
included measuring overall and per-country acceptance of certain generic
top-level domains (gTLDs) by end-users and the domain name system (DNS) as
a whole. The tests show that there were no underlying infrastructure
obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs.

"These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's Chief
Technology Officer, David Conrad. "However, there will need to be changes
to systems and software to fully leverage the global opportunities these
new TLDs enable."

Conrad went on to note that the results of the APNIC Labs tests identified
occasional problems with Adobe's Flash product working in Microsoft's
Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox when accessing Internationalized
Domain Name (IDN) TLDs.

UASG Chair Ram Mohan said "The problems identified in the report resulted
in a larger than expected number of IDN TLDs being unresolvable, clearly an
issue for Universal Acceptance. The UASG is reaching out to Microsoft,
Mozilla and Adobe to further investigate and mitigate this issue identified
in the report, and ensure problems are resolved for all TLDs." Mohan also
strongly encouraged members of the Internet community to join the UASG and
facilitate the proliferation of Universal Acceptance for all TLDs.

To learn more about the Universal Acceptance visit the UASG Wiki
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444> or ICANN's
UA
<https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en#involved>
webpage. Interested parties are also invited to join the discuss list:
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss.



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