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<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">Everyone, please find
below the section on Universal Acceptance coming from the report
on "</span><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px;
font-size: 18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);"><span
style="left: 121.083px; top: 225.77px; font-size: 18.3333px;
font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.05295);">ICANN
Organization’s Draft FY21</span><span style="left: 408.717px;
top: 225.77px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: sans-serif;">–</span><span
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Operating and Financial Plan and Draft FY21 Operating </span><span
style="left: 121.083px; top: 247.025px; font-size: 18.3333px;
font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.06837);">Plan and
Budget", which can be found here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-draft-opplan-budget-fy21-25-27mar20-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/report-comments-draft-opplan-budget-fy21-25-27mar20-en.pdf</a><br>
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<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
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<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">"Remediation of
technology means that efforts will be made to update programming
languages and frameworks, email tools and services and
applications that use them, such as websites, to be Universal
Acceptance (UA) ready.</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">As a first step, the
technology will be measured for UA readiness. Once the gaps are
identified, the remediation will take different forms, including
the following: For programming languages and frameworks and for
the email tools, an outreach effort will be organized to inform
their maintainers of the gaps and need for them to support UA
readiness. In addition, training will be organized for software
developers and email administrators to highlight the UA
readiness gaps in deployment of applications and services
(including websites and email services) and how to address them.</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">ICANN org will make a
plan for training as suggested. This is already underway in
collaboration with the UA Local Initiatives.</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">ICANN org aims to
conduct an annual assessment of results through the UA Steering
Group's Measurement Working Group, which will feed into annual
action plans.</span></p>
<p><span style="left: 120.25px; top: 789.692px; font-size:
18.3333px; transform: scaleX(1.00064);">With respect to the
budget figure, the org team has reviewed past year actuals and
future work planned and does not believe the budget figure will
negatively impact the work plan for the UA Steering Group.
Additionally, this budget figure does not include the full time
UA manager being hired within GDD to support the UA work."</span></p>
<p>Regards,<br>
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Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.markwd.website">www.markwd.website</a>]
In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)</pre>
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