[UA-discuss] Suggested topics for a tutorial on Universal Acceptance?

[Dr. Ajay Data]

Congratulations Jim

Wonderful news  and thankyou for taking the UA work forward. 

Please Feel free to let me know in case I can be of any help.

Hopefully everyone around you  is following social distancing and safe at home.

Best wishes 

Ajay 

On April 14, 2020 10:42:17 AM GMT+05:30, Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg at jdlh.com> wrote:
>UA Colleagues:
>
>My (other) proposal was accepted, and I will be doing a tutorial on 
>Universal Acceptance for the 44th Internationalisation and Unicode 
>Conference <https://www.unicodeconference.org/>, on October 14–16,
>2020. 
>I would appreciate suggestions from any of you about what UA topics are
>
>effective with this kind of audience. If you have slides or demo
>scripts 
>which I can re-use, that is even better.
>
>Here is what I know about what the Conference expects from me:
>
>*Audience*: small, likely 10-40 people in this tutorial, maybe 200-300 
>people total in the conference. But they are a top-class group of 
>experts in internationalisation, localisation, fonts, and language. 
>Attendees include the architects and implementers of language support 
>from major (US) tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook,
>
>Netflix, as well as expert academics. Some may have designed the specs 
>for IDNs and EAI. They might not know the term "Universal Acceptance" 
>yet (though once we are successful in our UASG efforts, they all will).
>
>But once they know the term, they will be 100% in favour. We don't need
>
>to spend much effort persuading them.
>
>*Purpose*: the tutorials are longer sessions on the first day of the 
>conference. They are intended to take someone who knows the general 
>subject of internationalisation and Unicode, and give them enough 
>background and explanation that they can understand the cutting-edge 
>topics in the remaining conference sessions.
>
>*Time*: 90 minutes.
>
>*Format*: usually a lecture in a meeting room, with no webcast and no 
>remote participation. Slides projected onto a screen. Most participants
>
>will have their own laptops and be comfortable using them, so a 
>participation exercise would be a great way to wake everyone up. 
>However, given the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible the whole 
>conference will shift to video participation from home. Or it might be 
>cancelled altogether. It's really hard to predict.
>
>*Possible Topics*
>
>* Context: the next one billion Internet users, and universal
>acceptance
>  * Exercise: give people a list of TLDs, ask them to find out: how may
>    TLDs? How many have xn-- prefix? What is longest TLD? etc.
> * The five key tasks of Universal Acceptance: Accept, Validate, Store,
>    Process, Display. (Do these really resonate? Do we still talk about
>    them?)
>  * Explain IDNA, how it builds on ASCII-only DNS. U-labels and
>    A-labels. Punycode.
>  * Deep dive on Punycode algorithm, so they really understand how it
>    works (but may not have time for this).
>  * Guidance for making your apps IDNA compatible. How to use UASG test
>    cases to test your app.
>  * DNS Label generation rules (LGR), and using them to build your own
>    policy on naming, avoiding confusables, etc.
>  * Explain EAI, how it uses IDNs, how it builds on ASCII-only
>    addresses. EAI phase 1 vs phase 2.
>  * Deep dive on the specs for EAI support in mail servers, e.g.
>    SMTPUIT8 support.
>  * Issues involved for email providers in implementing EAI in their
>    services. How it touches anti-spam, calendars, etc.
>  * Best practices for Email admins, and doc being prepared by EAI WG.
>  * UA use cases and UASG004.
>  * Case studies: XgenPlus, Coremail, Raseel, Microsoft Office365 &
>    Hotmail, etc.
>  * EAI Training Environment and EAI Test-Bed Server, for hands-on
>    learning (as Abdalmonem Galila reported at ICANN67)
>  * Encourage attendees to register their own EAI email accounts, from
>    XgenPlus etc, and try it out.
>  * What else?
>
>Obviously this is way more content than I can fit into 90 minutes. I 
>will need to cut out topics to fit my time. But right now, i am looking
>
>for other topics which work well in a tutorial setting, and material 
>which I can re-use.
>
>Please send any suggestions to me, on or off the list.
>
>I will, of course, be glad to contribute these presentations back to
>the 
>UASG for re-use. It might be possible to take a video of this tutorial,
>
>if the Conference allows it. Then I'd be happy for that to get added to
>
>the UASG library also.
>
>Best regards,
>        —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada
>
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>
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