[UA-discuss] What news of UA in 2020-2021 should the Unicode Conference hear?

[Jim DeLaHunt]

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 2020-2021, 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 2020?
  * What successes can we forecast for 2021?  (The conference is in
    October 2021, 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".) For instance, last year I 
presented a tutorial which was an introduction to UA, and I plan to 
propose that tutorial again this year.

Best regards,
       —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada

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