[UA-discuss] What news of UA in 2019-2020 should the Unicode Conference hear?

Tue Apr 14 04:19:48 UTC 2020

UA Colleagues:

I have heard back from the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference 
that this proposal, for a session on the news in UA in 2019-2020, was 
not quite accepted. It was put on a waitlist. If another speaker 
cancels, they will call on me to do this session. They think it is 
likely they will call on me.

Thus, I am still interested in suggestions about what are the top news 
stories for Universal Acceptance in 2019 and 2020. See below for the 
kind of material I'm looking for. My deadline is to have a draft 
presentation in early September, so I would like suggestions between now 
and early August. The conference is in October 14-16, 2020.

Of course, in the few weeks between when I submitted my proposal and 
when they accepted, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned all decisions about 
face-to-face conferences like this upside-down. I have no idea whether 
the conference will go ahead in person, or switch to video, or be 
cancelled. I will proceed to write the content anyway. It will surely be 
useful for someone.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions. Best regards,
       —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada

On 2020-03-04 23:48, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>
> UA Colleagues:
>
> In addition to those of you who are considering what topic to propose 
> for the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, I too am thinking 
> about what I want to propose. I know this conference well, and I 
> propose talks almost every year. I feel strongly that the Program 
> Committee should have interesting proposals about Universal 
> Acceptance, which keep the idea of UA and the news of what has been 
> happening in front of this conference's attendees.
>
> I am considering proposing a talk on the news what has happened in 
> Universal Acceptance in 2019-2020, and a description of what the 
> difficult obstacles are. Obstacles could be technical, or policy, or 
> business issues.
>
>   * What would you say are the most interesting and important
>     successes in Universal Acceptance in 2019?
>   * What successes can we forecast for 2020?  (The conference is in
>     October 2020, and obviously the actual presentation will be
>     adjusted based on what actually happens.)
>   * What measurable process can we report on Universal Acceptance? e.g.
>       o number of internationalised domain names (IDNs) registered,
>       o traffic to web sites with IDNs,
>       o number of vendors supporting email address
>         internationalisation (EAI),
>       o number of emails being sent from or to internationalised email
>         addresses?
>   * What are the obstacles that Universal Acceptance faces? What is
>     required to overcome those obstacles?
>   * What should this conference audience know about UA, which they
>     might not be aware of?
>
> Is this material already contained in presentations or reports which I 
> could study and repurpose?
>
> Bear in mind that this audience has in-depth knowledge about 
> internationalisation, and Unicode. The audience includes the experts 
> who designed many of the software architectures for 
> internationalisation, IDN, and EAI. They are in favour of 
> internationalisation of all kinds. Thus we don't need content which 
> explains basic UA, or tries to persuade them that UA is desireable — 
> they are persuaded.
>
> Also, if someone else plans to propose a topic like this, please get 
> in touch with me. I do not want to get in your way. And, you may be a 
> better messenger for this material than I am. (In any case, I have 
> some other proposals apart from a "Report on UA".)
>
> Best regards,
>       —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada
>
> -- 
>      --Jim DeLaHunt,jdlh at jdlh.com      http://blog.jdlh.com/  (http://jdlh.com/)
>        multilingual websites consultant
>
>        355-1027 Davie St, Vancouver BC V6E 4L2, Canada
>           Canada mobile +1-604-376-8953
>
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       multilingual websites consultant

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