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

Tue Apr 28 02:36:06 UTC 2020

Thank you for the suggestions, Mark. My deadline to submit a draft is 
months away, so I have time to receive more suggestions.

        —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver Canada

On 2020-04-27 17:09, Mark Datysgeld wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delayed response.
>
> Things I always include in my presentations are concept that are more 
> specific to us than other industry players. One example is A-Labels 
> vs. U-Labels and the challenges around punycode. Talking about the 
> early embracing of IDNs by ccTLDs is also relevant. Recent documents 
> such as UASG025 and 026 also offer a lot of data that can be formatted 
> to your presentation.
>
> Best,
>
> On 04/14/2020 02:12, Jim DeLaHunt 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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>>        multilingual websites consultant
>>
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