<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the update Don.<div>Elaine</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Don Hollander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" target="_blank">don.hollander@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"></div><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Follows a report on UA activities @ ICANN53.<div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:26.0pt">Universal Acceptance @
ICANN53</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span lang="EN-US">Prepared by<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i><span lang="EN-US">Don Hollander<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As many as fifty people at any point in
time attended the first Universal Acceptance Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN53
meeting in Buenos Aires.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It was the first opportunity for the UASG
and it’s project groups to meet face to face to assess achievements to date and
plan for the next trimester.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">UASG Chair Ram Mohan went through the
formative processes of the UASG since January 2015. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Since the seed was germinated in January,
the idea of the UASG has coalesced, was affirmed at the ICANN52 meeting in
Singapore, chartered, project groups formed, leaders selected and work started.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The workshop also heard from ICANN’s CIO
Ashwin Rangan about the real world complexities that a CIO faces to make their organization
UA Ready. For many, this insight into
the real world were very welcome.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Topline & Technical <u></u><u></u></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This group identified two substantial,
priority issues that need to be addressed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">There’s a very real need to get
Email Address Internationalization (EAI) software further developed and
deployed. With Microsoft and Google
active members of the UASG the group wanted to put focus on the other very
large e-mail service and software providers – such as <a href="http://163.com" target="_blank">163.com</a>, Yandex, Yahoo,
Coremail and others.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Another very real need is to develop
and publish specifications and good practice guides aimed at Systems Architects
and programmers. And associated with
this is the need to get some sample code libraries available<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">International</span></u><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The International group has its focus on
the IDN ecosystem and its target audience is the small and medium size
developers. The end goal of this group is to develop guides, tools and widgets to
drive adoption of IDNs. During the workshop, the group identified some near and
long term goals. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Among the near term goals is
the compilation of good practices about handling of confusable characters to
minimize spoofing of domain names <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">For long-term goals the group
identified several initiatives. To name a few: next generation IDN guidelines,
discuss a transition plan for full IDNA2008 support by browsers, draft
recommendation to standardized browser behavior with IDNs.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Measurement & Monitoring</span></u><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This group is going to develop a seat of
measures, both objective and subjective.
The group re-affirmed its desire to make sure that it’s efforts were
people focused. And the group will also
work on some method to capture non-compliant environments and reach out to the
relevant responsible party.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Community Outreach</span></u><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Community Outreach group wanted to
focus on substantive and achievable results during the next trimester. Taking their riding instructions from the
other groups on where to focus, they will work on the following two projects:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Reaching out to very large
e-mail service and software suppliers to encourage EAI compliance.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Developing a communications
package for the smaller organisations that the International group wants to
target.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Community Outreach group will also look
at UA Branding and newsletters and other activities as resources permit.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In addition to the UA Workshop, a number of
other UA sessions were held:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">UA Updates
were presented to:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The LACDNS Forum<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The Registries<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The Registrars<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The ISPs <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The ccNSO<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The geoTLD Group<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The UA Public Forum was held with a repeat
of Ram’s presentation at the workshop and Ashwin’s presentation on ICANN IT’s
activities as well as an update from the four project groups on the output from
Sunday.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At the UA Public Forum we also heard of
work that David Conrad’s group within ICANN is doing to test reachability of
new gTLDs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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