<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Jim,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re familiar with the process and nature, please do go ahead and create a proposal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can help with collateral, presentations, and a speaker.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Perhaps the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An introduction to Universal Acceptance</div><div class="">Two marked changes in the Internet name space have occurred, but are not widely adopted. Hundreds of new Top Level Domains (including IDNs) and support for non-ascii mailbox names in email (EAI - Email Address Internationalisation)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This presentation will provide an introduction to the topics, an introduction to the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG - <a href="http://www.uasg.tech" class="">www.uasg.tech</a>) and the work that is underway to provide documentation, resources, and mitigation efforts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The presentation will actively seek out participants from the conference attendees who will be able to share what they learn when they return home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——</div><div class="">Internationalisation and Unicode in domain names and email addresses - practical steps toward universal acceptance</div><div class="">This presentation will introduce Universal Acceptance and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG - <a href="http://www.uasg.tech" class="">www.uasg.tech</a>) and outline the work that is underway to facilitate acceptance of all domain names and all email addresses.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class="">Perhaps something else.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12/03/2017, at 1:21 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <<a href="mailto:jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com" class="">jfrom.uasg@jdlh.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hello, colleagues:</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I'm a big fan of, and regular participant in, the annual Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC), brought to us by the people who brought us Unicode. I imagine that people who are interested in Universal Acceptance are likely to be interested in this conference, and may well have important contributions they could make to it.<br class=""></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">So, #1, I'd like to make everyone in UASG aware that the IUC has a call for participation. The deadline for proposals is Friday, 24. March, 2017. Please consider proposing a talk if you have something that the IUC audience would benefit from.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And, #2, I don't recall there being a proper presentation of the UASG activity at the IUC conference. (Dave Crocker gave a 5-minute "lightning talk" about Universal Acceptance and the UASG, but that was barely enough time to say that it existed.)</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I would like to see a proposal about the Universal Acceptance Initiative submitted to the conference this year. If someone is already working on this, I would like to talk to you off-list and see if it makes sense to work together. If there is no existing effort, I would like to start one. I welcome collaboration. I will see to it that a proposal gets submitted.<br class=""></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Best regards,<br class=""> --Jim DeLaHunt<br class=""></p><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- -
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