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<p>UA Colleagues:</p>
<p>I have heard back from the Internationalisation and Unicode
Conference that this proposal, for a session on the news in UA in
2019-2020, was not quite accepted. It was put on a waitlist. If
another speaker cancels, they will call on me to do this session.
They think it is likely they will call on me.<br>
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<p>Thus, I am still interested in suggestions about what are the top
news stories for Universal Acceptance in 2019 and 2020. See below
for the kind of material I'm looking for. My deadline is to have a
draft presentation in early September, so I would like suggestions
between now and early August. The conference is in October 14-16,
2020.<br>
</p>
<p>Of course, in the few weeks between when I submitted my proposal
and when they accepted, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned all
decisions about face-to-face conferences like this upside-down. I
have no idea whether the conference will go ahead in person, or
switch to video, or be cancelled. I will proceed to write the
content anyway. It will surely be useful for someone.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance for your suggestions. Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-03-04 23:48, Jim DeLaHunt
wrote:<br>
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<p>UA Colleagues:</p>
<p>In addition to those of you who are considering what topic to
propose for the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, I
too am thinking about what I want to propose. I know this
conference well, and I propose talks almost every year. I feel
strongly that the Program Committee should have interesting
proposals about Universal Acceptance, which keep the idea of UA
and the news of what has been happening in front of this
conference's attendees. <br>
</p>
<p>I am considering proposing a talk on the news what has happened
in Universal Acceptance in 2019-2020, and a description of what
the difficult obstacles are. Obstacles could be technical, or
policy, or business issues. <br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>What would you say are the most interesting and important
successes in Universal Acceptance in 2019?</li>
<li>What successes can we forecast for 2020? (The conference is
in October 2020, and obviously the actual presentation will be
adjusted based on what actually happens.)</li>
<li>What measurable process can we report on Universal
Acceptance? e.g. <br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>number of internationalised domain names (IDNs)
registered, <br>
</li>
<li>traffic to web sites with IDNs, <br>
</li>
<li>number of vendors supporting email address
internationalisation (EAI), <br>
</li>
<li>number of emails being sent from or to internationalised
email addresses?</li>
</ul>
<li>What are the obstacles that Universal Acceptance faces? What
is required to overcome those obstacles?</li>
<li>What should this conference audience know about UA, which
they might not be aware of? </li>
</ul>
<p>Is this material already contained in presentations or reports
which I could study and repurpose?<br>
</p>
<p>Bear in mind that this audience has in-depth knowledge about
internationalisation, and Unicode. The audience includes the
experts who designed many of the software architectures for
internationalisation, IDN, and EAI. They are in favour of
internationalisation of all kinds. Thus we don't need content
which explains basic UA, or tries to persuade them that UA is
desireable — they are persuaded.<br>
</p>
<p>Also, if someone else plans to propose a topic like this,
please get in touch with me. I do not want to get in your way.
And, you may be a better messenger for this material than I am.
(In any case, I have some other proposals apart from a "Report
on UA".)</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada<br>
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