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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 2020-2021, 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 2020?</li>
<li>What successes can we forecast for 2021? (The conference is
in October 2021, 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".)
For instance, last year I presented a tutorial which was an
introduction to UA, and I plan to propose that tutorial again this
year.<br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada<br>
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