[UA-Tech] "Champions of UA" RECOGNITION [was: Re: UASG Five Year Strategic Planning FY(2025 - 2029)]

[Satish Babu]

Dear all

After reading about this idea from the posts here, I had briefly raised
this proposal in the UA Planning session yesterday, and there was broad
support there.

As a member of the 2023 IEEE global Awards and Recognitions Committee
(ARC), I'd be happy to support this initiative.

With kind regards





satish


On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 1:06 PM Raitme Citterio via UA-Tech <
ua-tech at icann.org> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone
>
> To contribute to the analysis of this interesting proposal, which I
> support and join.
>
> I would like to contribute an example to analyze that is more in tune with
> the type of work of implementation of UA principles at the technical level.
>
> In the past I was a member of a chapter of ACM and they have a whole model
> of recognition and nomination processes and even regional recognitions.
>
> https://awards.acm.org
>
> https://awards.acm.org/regional-awards
>
> https://awards.acm.org/award-nominations
>
> https://awards.acm.org/guides
>
> I hope I can help give you a better idea to develop an approach that can
> be implemented within UA.
>
> Sincerely
>
>
> Raitme Citterio
> 4FE7 B994 C1CF 2815 at pgp
>
>
> El mar, 24 oct 2023 a la(s) 03:49, Jim DeLaHunt via UA-Tech (
> ua-tech at icann.org) escribió:
>
>> I love, love, love this idea of a "Champions of UA" Recognition!
>>
>> UASG does not have the power to compel organisations to become
>> universally accepting. We cannot really affect the economic incentives
>> which will, I believe, determine what universal acceptance happens or does
>> not happen. But we certainly can celebrate those who are doing a good job.
>>
>> We can take as models various awards: the Nobel prizes[1] for benefit to
>> humanity, the Collier Trophy[2] for aeronautics and astronautics, the
>> Academy Awards[3] ("Oscars") for the film industry, etc.
>>
>> I suspect that $10,000 spent on developing an award for best Universal
>> Acceptance accomplishment of the year, conferring it, and publicising it,
>> might well advance Universal Acceptance more than hiring developers to
>> evaluate and report on the universal acceptance flaws of a software
>> library.
>>
>> Great idea, Jothan!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     —Jim DeLaHunt
>>
>> [1] Nobel Prizes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize>
>> [2] Collier Trophy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy>
>> [3] Academy Awards <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards>
>> On 2023-10-09 10:34, Jothan Frakes via UA-Tech wrote:
>>
>> ...[background omitted]...
>> Rather than pointing this likely familiar and aggressively inconvenient
>> aspect of the gaps that plague UA, I came up with an idea that I'd like to
>> float, and in the context of the budget planning, would hope to see
>> resourced to recognize UA champions who step up.
>>
>> *HERE IS THE IDEA - WHAT IF THERE WERE A "Champions of UA" RECOGNITION:*
>> There were some dedicated recognition pages where companies' or
>> engineer's (or others' who help) names get listed in recognition of being
>> champions, along with what components that they updated.  I'd suggest that
>> this would not be expensive, and there is value to people that could point
>> to their name being listed as part of their CV or other accolades.
>> It may require special consideration due to privacy regulation, but
>> there's likely an opt-in process as part of submitting.
>>
>> The resourcing would be the web page and some form of coordinator /
>> review and curation of the champions list.  If it really took hold, one
>> could have awards, categories or other expansion of recognition, things
>> like badges that could be shown on linked-in or xing, or printed
>> certificate plaque pdf that can be framed and placed on office wall.
>>
>> It won't solve all the gaps, and may not motivate 100% of the
>> key/crucial/necessary participants, but is really not a lot, but rather
>> than spiffs or bounties, it is a recognition that could be meaningful
>> enough to attract some momentum and solutions to happen.
>>
>> Currently, due to there being a lot of tech debt involved, there is low
>> allure to shining flashlights into the corners of how code might be looking
>> at domains - ASCII or IDN.  Perhaps elevating and recognizing those who do
>> (or their employers) is a way to help exchange the costs of doing so for
>> some ability to flex some accolades or virtue signalling.
>>
>> Please steal and use this idea, and if it does work, plan that there is
>> budget for it considered.
>>
>> -Jothan
>>
>> --
>>     --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh at jdlh.com     http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/)
>>       multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, Canada
>>
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