[UA-discuss] Maybe email addresses and URLs might not matter anymore?

[Mark W. Datysgeld]

Apps are transient by nature, while global systems and protocols have much more staying power. When we work on the DNS (plus everything around it) and make it better, I am always considering how this will impact even a system that supercedes the DNS. If UA is common, that system will inherit it. If it is not, we are leaving it up to chance.
-- 
Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website]
In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

On July 28, 2020 8:52:00 PM GMT-03:00, Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg at jdlh.com> wrote:
>UA Colleagues:
>
>We spend a lot of time thinking about universal acceptance of email 
>addresses and URLs. We tend to assume that email addresses and URLs are
>
>important. But for a lot of information technology users, they aren't. 
>Those users learned to use IT via mobile, rather than via desktop 
>computers. They use all-embracing messaging apps like WeChat, or walled
>
>garden social media sites where you find what you want by search. In 
>these environments, email addresses and URLs just don't matter as much 
>as they do in longer-established, and Anglo-centric, IT cultures.
>
>Here are an interesting blog post and an interesting news article on
>the 
>topic:
>
>/In China, email addresses are irrelevant/ • July 28, 2020 by John 
>Yunker, blog post
><https://globalbydesign.com/2020/07/28/in-china-email-addresses-are-irrelevant/>
>
>/Why email loses out to popular apps in Chin//a/ • 9th July 2020 by 
>Lu-Hai Liang, BBC
><https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200707-why-email-loses-out-to-popular-apps-in-china>
>
>
>
>I think a useful response to this might be to keep asking ourselves,
>how 
>do people communicate in preference to emails? How do people find
>things 
>in preference to typing in URLs?  Then investigating those methods for 
>Universal Acceptance as well.
>
>'In Anglo-centric countries such as the UK, US, Canada, Australia and 
>New Zealand, email retains the etiquette of an analogue age. The “Dear 
>X” greetings and formal sign-offs – “Best regards” – and so on, reveal 
>vestigial ties to letter writing.'
>
>As I do in this email message. Best regards,
>      —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada
>
>-- 
>.   --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh at jdlh.com     http://blog.jdlh.com/
>(http://jdlh.com/)
>       multilingual websites consultant
>
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