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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">we had some activities on spreading the word for Universal Acceptance in the last days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In Marrakech I recorded some statements that have been combined to a small podcast. If you are interested, I can arrange to produce a “whitelabel”-version without eco being mentioned to reuse the material for any purpose
that may come to your mind:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/getting-next-billion-online-universal-acceptance.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/getting-next-billion-online-universal-acceptance.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">eco also published a small press release on UA before the ICANN meeting in Marrakech:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/eco-the-internet-is-more-international-than-ever-before.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/eco-the-internet-is-more-international-than-ever-before.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">At WHD.global last week Christian and me had the pleasure to have a discussion panel on Universal Acceptance together with Peter Janssen (EURid), Bert Hubert (PowerDNS) and Werner Staub (CORE). Special thanks to Ram,
who produced the great introduction video!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/building-towards-tomorrows-internet-fixing-idns-eai-universal-acceptance.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/building-towards-tomorrows-internet-fixing-idns-eai-universal-acceptance.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We also had panel discussions at WHD.global about .brands and geoTLDs, where some of the panelists raised the point, that Universal Acceptance is an issue that need to be solved before we see these TLDs coming to full
implementation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/brandtlds-the-great-unkowns.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/brandtlds-the-great-unkowns.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/geotlds-bradded-value-for-regions-cities-companies.html">https://numbers.eco.de/2016/international/geotlds-bradded-value-for-regions-cities-companies.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please feel free to use, embed, share, spread,… the material. Feedback is always welcome to improve for upcoming activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Lars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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