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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I translated the news for our German community:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2015/news/icann-und-uasg-veroeffentlichen-ergebnisse-der-universal-acceptance-study-fuer-neue-gtlds.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2015/news/icann-und-uasg-veroeffentlichen-ergebnisse-der-universal-acceptance-study-fuer-neue-gtlds.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Ram Mohan<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 16. September 2015 13:11<br><b>An:</b> UA-discuss@icann.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> [UA-discuss] FW: [icann-board] ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:icann-board-bounces@icann.org">icann-board-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:icann-board-bounces@icann.org">mailto:icann-board-bounces@icann.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ICANN News Alert<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2015 6:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:icann-board@icann.org">icann-board@icann.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [icann-board] ICANN News Alert -- ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt 8.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.icann.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/icann-primary-94x94.jpg" alt=ICANN></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-14-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-top:15.0pt'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div></div><h2 style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN and UASG Announce Results of Universal Acceptance Study for New gTLDs<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>14 September 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN, in conjunction with the <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444">Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)</a> announced the availability of a new report: <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance</span></em>. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device. The report, sponsored by ICANN, is available <a href="http://www.potaroo.net/reports/Universal-Acceptance/UA-Report.pdf">here</a> [PDF, 1.63 MB].<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>APNIC Labs, the research arm of the <a href="https://www.apnic.net/">Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)</a>, conducted the tests and analysis, which included measuring overall and per-country acceptance of certain generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by end-users and the domain name system (DNS) as a whole. The tests show that there were no underlying infrastructure obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"These results were in-line with our expectations," said ICANN's Chief Technology Officer, David Conrad. "However, there will need to be changes to systems and software to fully leverage the global opportunities these new TLDs enable."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Conrad went on to note that the results of the APNIC Labs tests identified occasional problems with Adobe's Flash product working in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox when accessing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) TLDs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>UASG Chair Ram Mohan said "The problems identified in the report resulted in a larger than expected number of IDN TLDs being unresolvable, clearly an issue for Universal Acceptance. The UASG is reaching out to Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe to further investigate and mitigate this issue identified in the report, and ensure problems are resolved for all TLDs." Mohan also strongly encouraged members of the Internet community to join the UASG and facilitate the proliferation of Universal Acceptance for all TLDs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To learn more about the Universal Acceptance visit the <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=47255444">UASG Wiki</a> or <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/universal-acceptance-2012-02-25-en#involved">ICANN's UA</a> webpage. Interested parties are also invited to join the discuss list: <a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5E5E5E'>This message was sent to <a href="mailto:icann-board@icann.org">icann-board@icann.org</a> from:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5E5E5E'>ICANN News Alert | <a href="mailto:communications@icann.org">communications@icann.org</a> | ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="2%" style='width:2.0%;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='line-height:9.75pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5E5E5E'>Email Marketing by <a href="http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://app.icontact.com/images/icontact_tryFree.gif" alt="iContact - Try It Free!"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=20666176&l=6333&s=RSGT&m=972845&c=165637"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#115880;background:white;text-decoration:none'>Manage Your Subscription </span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/track.php?msgid=972845&act=RSGT&r=20666176&c=165637"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>