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<body>Congratulations Jim<br>
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Wonderful news and thankyou for taking the UA work forward. <br>
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Please Feel free to let me know in case I can be of any help.<br>
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Hopefully everyone around you is following social distancing and safe at home.<br>
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Best wishes <br>
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Ajay <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 14, 2020 10:42:17 AM GMT+05:30, Jim DeLaHunt <list+uasg@jdlh.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>UA Colleagues:</p>
<p>My (other) proposal was accepted, and I will be doing a tutorial
on Universal Acceptance for the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.unicodeconference.org/">44th
Internationalisation and Unicode Conference</a>, on October
14–16, 2020. I would appreciate suggestions from any of you about
what UA topics are effective with this kind of audience. If you
have slides or demo scripts which I can re-use, that is even
better.</p>
<p>Here is what I know about what the Conference expects from me:</p>
<p><b>Audience</b>: small, likely 10-40 people in this tutorial,
maybe 200-300 people total in the conference. But they are a
top-class group of experts in internationalisation, localisation,
fonts, and language. Attendees include the architects and
implementers of language support from major (US) tech companies
like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Netflix, as well as
expert academics. Some may have designed the specs for IDNs and
EAI. They might not know the term "Universal Acceptance" yet
(though once we are successful in our UASG efforts, they all
will). But once they know the term, they will be 100% in favour.
We don't need to spend much effort persuading them.</p>
<p><b>Purpose</b>: the tutorials are longer sessions on the first
day of the conference. They are intended to take someone who knows
the general subject of internationalisation and Unicode, and give
them enough background and explanation that they can understand
the cutting-edge topics in the remaining conference sessions.</p>
<p><b>Time</b>: 90 minutes. <br>
</p>
<p><b>Format</b>: usually a lecture in a meeting room, with no
webcast and no remote participation. Slides projected onto a
screen. Most participants will have their own laptops and be
comfortable using them, so a participation exercise would be a
great way to wake everyone up. However, given the COVID-19
pandemic, it is possible the whole conference will shift to video
participation from home. Or it might be cancelled altogether. It's
really hard to predict. <br>
</p>
<p><b>Possible Topics</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Context: the next one billion Internet users, and universal
acceptance</li>
<li>Exercise: give people a list of TLDs, ask them to find out:
how may TLDs? How many have xn-- prefix? What is longest TLD?
etc.</li>
<li>The five key tasks of Universal Acceptance: Accept, Validate,
Store, Process, Display. (Do these really resonate? Do we still
talk about them?)<br>
</li>
<li>Explain IDNA, how it builds on ASCII-only DNS. U-labels and
A-labels. Punycode.</li>
<li>Deep dive on Punycode algorithm, so they really understand how
it works (but may not have time for this).</li>
<li>Guidance for making your apps IDNA compatible. How to use UASG
test cases to test your app.</li>
<li>DNS Label generation rules (LGR), and using them to build your
own policy on naming, avoiding confusables, etc.<br>
</li>
<li>Explain EAI, how it uses IDNs, how it builds on ASCII-only
addresses. EAI phase 1 vs phase 2.</li>
<li>Deep dive on the specs for EAI support in mail servers, e.g.
SMTPUIT8 support.</li>
<li>Issues involved for email providers in implementing EAI in
their services. How it touches anti-spam, calendars, etc.</li>
<li>Best practices for Email admins, and doc being prepared by EAI
WG.<br>
</li>
<li>UA use cases and UASG004.</li>
<li>Case studies: XgenPlus, Coremail, Raseel, Microsoft Office365
& Hotmail, etc.</li>
<li>EAI Training Environment and EAI Test-Bed Server, for hands-on
learning (as Abdalmonem Galila reported at ICANN67)<br>
</li>
<li>Encourage attendees to register their own EAI email accounts,
from XgenPlus etc, and try it out.</li>
<li>What else?</li>
</ul>
<p>Obviously this is way more content than I can fit into 90
minutes. I will need to cut out topics to fit my time. But right
now, i am looking for other topics which work well in a tutorial
setting, and material which I can re-use.</p>
<p>Please send any suggestions to me, on or off the list.</p>
<p>I will, of course, be glad to contribute these presentations back
to the UASG for re-use. It might be possible to take a video of
this tutorial, if the Conference allows it. Then I'd be happy for
that to get added to the UASG library also.<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada<br>
</p>
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