Hi Mutegeki,

Thanks for the response.

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM Mutegeki Cliff <mutegekicliff@gmail.com> wrote:

  1. Reframe the Mission: As you rightly noted, UA is often narrowly associated with email and domain names. But the broader vision—ensuring linguistic and cultural inclusivity in how people access digital resources—is still vital. Expanding UA to embrace content accessibility, Unicode compliance across apps, and locally relevant digital services could make it more aligned with how people engage with the Internet today.

What you describe is already being done ... elsewhere.

The i18n arm of W3C has existed since 1999, working towards these exact same objectives. It is in the interest of ICANN's UA advocates to get involved in such efforts rather than re-invent them. Furthermore, by being a partner in a larger effort, ICANN avoids allegations of conflict of interest, as advocating for more IDNs can be seen as a strategy to attract more fees from TLD applications and IDN rentals.

Once recognition is made that the challenge  is larger than just domain names and email addresses, the opportunity exists to support -- and even drive -- efforts to make the entire Internet more globally accessible. I suggest getting involved in existing efforts rather than creating something new that would compete for attention and funding. NIH thinking must be resisted.

Cheers,
Evan