[UA-discuss] Universal Acceptance in ICANN's Operating and Financial Plan

[Mark Datysgeld]

Everyone, please find below the section on Universal Acceptance coming 
from the report on "ICANN Organization’s Draft FY21–25 Operating and 
Financial Plan and Draft FY21 Operating Plan and Budget", which can be 
found here: 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-draft-opplan-budget-fy21-25-27mar20-en.pdf

Quote:

"Remediation of technology means that efforts will be made to update 
programming languages and frameworks, email tools and services and 
applications that use them, such as websites, to be Universal Acceptance 
(UA) ready.

As a first step, the technology will be measured for UA readiness. Once 
the gaps are identified, the remediation will take different forms, 
including the following: For programming languages and frameworks and 
for the email tools, an outreach effort will be organized to inform 
their maintainers of the gaps and need for them to support UA readiness. 
In addition, training will be organized for software developers and 
email administrators to highlight the UA readiness gaps in deployment of 
applications and services (including websites and email services) and 
how to address them.

ICANN org will make a plan for training as suggested. This is already 
underway in collaboration with the UA Local Initiatives.

ICANN org aims to conduct an annual assessment of results through the UA 
Steering Group's Measurement Working Group, which will feed into annual 
action plans.

With respect to the budget figure, the org team has reviewed past year 
actuals and future work planned and does not believe the budget figure 
will negatively impact the work plan for the UA Steering Group. 
Additionally, this budget figure does not include the full time UA 
manager being hired within GDD to support the UA work."

Regards,

-- 
Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]
In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

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