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

[Lars Steffen]

I translated the news for our German community:

https://numbers.eco.de/2015/news/icann-und-uasg-veroeffentlichen-ergebnisse-der-universal-acceptance-study-fuer-neue-gtlds.html





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Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs







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Subject: [icann-board] ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of 
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News Alert


https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en

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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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