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ICANN for Beginners - What is "Universal Acceptance"
by Fahd Batayneh Dec. 18, 2022

Dec. 18, 2022

Friends and Colleagues, As part of ICANN’s virtual Beginners Program, the next webinar is on 17 and 18 January 2022, and will cover the topic of Universal Acceptance. Both webinars are identical, and registration can happen through the following links: 17 January 2023 at 14:00 UTC Register to attend 18 January 2023 at 6:00 UTC Register to attend Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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ICANN for Beginners - Website
by Fahd Batayneh Dec. 9, 2022

Dec. 9, 2022

Friends and Colleagues, The ICANN for Beginners section on the ICANN website is now live at https://www.icann.org/en/beginners, and is available in the six UN languages. This is a good starting point if you are relatively new to ICANN, and would like to explore and later dive-deep into the ICANN world. Enjoy! Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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[Reminder] Middle East DNS Forum - Call for New Program Committee Members
by Fahd Batayneh Dec. 7, 2022

Dec. 7, 2022

Dear All, The call for new PC members is still open, and remains so until Wednesday 14 December at 23.59 UTC. If you fit the description and are interested, please read on and take action. Thank you, Fahd Date: Thursday, 1 December 2022 at 10:33 AM Subject: Middle East DNS Forum - Call for New Program Committee Members Friends and Colleagues, This is an open call for those interested in joining the program committee (PC) of the Middle East DNS Forum. The PC is responsible for developing an agenda for the next Middle East DNS Forum, and suggesting speakers for the different sessions. Applicants must keep in mind the following: An applicant must be from the Middle East, resides in the Middle East, or has DNS business interest in the Middle East. The Middle East is defined as the 22 Arab States, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The work is done voluntarily with no compensation involved. Work is done over a mailing list and over dedicated conference calls. The term of successful PC members is for 2 editions of the forum. A PC member must devote adequate time especially around the forum’s dates. If you think you are the right candidate, please fill out the form at https://forms.gle/qeZqqakFrPPMnCSg6. The call remains open until Wednesday 14 December at 23.59 UTC. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ME DNS Forum Coordinator / ICANN

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Middle East DNS Forum - Call for New Program Committee Members
by Fahd Batayneh Dec. 1, 2022

Dec. 1, 2022

Friends and Colleagues, This is an open call for those interested in joining the program committee (PC) of the Middle East DNS Forum. The PC is responsible for developing an agenda for the next Middle East DNS Forum, and suggesting speakers for the different sessions. Applicants must keep in mind the following: An applicant must be from the Middle East, resides in the Middle East, or has DNS business interest in the Middle East. The Middle East is defined as the 22 Arab States, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The work is done voluntarily with no compensation involved. Work is done over a mailing list and over dedicated conference calls. The term of successful PC members is for 2 editions of the forum. A PC member must devote adequate time especially around the forum’s dates. If you think you are the right candidate, please fill out the form at https://forms.gle/qeZqqakFrPPMnCSg6. The call remains open until Wednesday 14 December at 23.59 UTC. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ME DNS Forum Coordinator / ICANN

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Leadership renewal
by Tijani BEN JEMAA Nov. 28, 2022

Nov. 28, 2022

Dear ME Space community members, Now that we spent more than 2 years functioning with 3 co-chairs, we need to renew the leadership and bring new blood. We open today a nomination period for the position of ME Space co-chair according to the following timeline: 31/10 – 24/11 Nomination period 25/11 publication of the list of nominees 25/11 – 26/11 Selection period 26/11 Announcement of the new leadership composition Remarks: · Nomination can be self- nomination or nomination by another member of the community · The selection committee will be composed of non-candidate former chairs (co-chairs) plus Fahd El Batayna from the GSE Middle East. · Selection criteria are: o Being from the ICANN ME Region o Having participated in at least 3 ME Space sessions (onsite or online) o Having been at least once on the drafting team Best Tijani BEN JEMAA On behalf of the ME Space Co-Chairs -- Tijani BENJEMAA Executive Director Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (FMAI) Telephone: +216 52 385 114

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ICANN77 Fellowship Application Round Now Open
by Fahd Batayneh Nov. 20, 2022

Nov. 20, 2022

Dear All, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application round for the ICANN Fellowship Program for the ICANN77 Policy Forum. This round is open only to those who have previously completed an ICANN fellowship. The ICANN77 Policy Forum is scheduled for 12–15 June 2023 in Washington, D.C. If ICANN77 is held virtually, the Fellowship Program will also be held virtually. The deadline to apply is 15 December 2022, 23:59 UTC. More at https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann77-fellowship-applicati…. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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ICANN DNS Symposium and IANA Community Day | 15-17 November 2022
by Fahd Batayneh Oct. 29, 2022

Oct. 29, 2022

Friends and Colleagues, The fifth ICANN DNS Symposium (IDS 2022) will be held 15-16 November 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. IDS 2022 will be held immediately before the IANA Community Day on 17 November. The theme for IDS 2022 is "Examining the effects of both centralization and diversification in the DNS." You can join in-person or remotely. For registration, logistics, and relevant information, please consult the event’s webpage at https://www.icann.org/ids. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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Fwd: [UA-comms] IDN homograph attacks on Internationalised Domain Names
by NP Kurtböke Oct. 9, 2022

Oct. 9, 2022

---------- Forwarded message --------- Gönderen: Jim DeLaHunt via UA-comms <ua-comms(a)icann.org> Date: 8 Eki 2022 Cmt 22:46 Subject: Re: [UA-comms] IDN homograph attacks on Internationalised Domain Names To: <ua-comms(a)icann.org> On 2022-10-08 04:07, Mutegeki Cliff via UA-comms wrote: *Hello, * It's Cybersecurity awareness month and I wanted to do a Universal Acceptance activity around Internationalised Domain Names and Cybersecurity. Is there any existing training content for this? Also is there an expert in this field who can assist in helping us set up a successful event? *Kind Regards, * *..............................* *Mutegeki Cliff Agaba * *Website: www.mutegekicliff.com <http://www.mutegekicliff.com>* *Phone : + 256 776 800 679 * It would be great to have some UA-supportive training content about homograph attacks and Internationalised Domain Names. I routinely see the risk of homograph attacks used as a reason to reject IDNs and Universal Acceptance. See, for example, IDN homograph attack <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack> and Why does Unicode have separate codepoints for characters with identical glyphs? … This causes severe security issues [IDN homograph attacks]… <https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/368856/why-does-uni…> <https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/368856/why-does-uni…>. I wrote a response, posted there and on my blog: <http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2018/05/31/unicode-identical-glyphs/> <http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2018/05/31/unicode-identical-glyphs/>. There are three effective responses to this objection, I suggest: 1. Put risk in perspective. IDN Homograph attack risk is real, but small compared to other risks, such as non-IDN homograph attack risk, other kinds of misleading domain names and URLs, other kinds of attacks not involving the user reading domain names. The incremental risk due to IDN homographs is small, compared to overall risks. 2. Benefit is much greater than cost. IDNs bring great benefits, such as ease of use and internet accessibility, to many people. These benefits outweigh the costs from small increased risk. 3. Challenge the standpoint of the critic. I hear the IDN homograph risk criticism from people in North America and Europe, whose cultures are well-served by unaccented latin characters of legacy domain names, and whose economies have thoroughly adopted internet use. They get less personal benefit from IDNs than do people from other parts of the world, from cultures which use non-Latin scripts, from economies where internet use has reached only a multilingual, internationalised elite. Challenge the critic why their personal measure of cost-benefit should overrule others, who have a much more favourable cost-benefit from using IDNs. I hope this is helpful for us as we come up with UA-supportive ways to communicate the benefits of IDNs and the challenges posed by homograph attacks. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 17:30, Mark W. Datysgeld via UA-comms < ua-comms(a)icann.org> wrote: > Good call, Maria. After we did the refresh, there still remained several > areas that can use work... that bar, for example, could remove the Popular > tab and just keep the Recent. > > Best, > --- > Mark W. Datysgeld > Director at Governance Primer > ICANN GNSO Councilor > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Maria Kolesnikova via UA-comms <ua-comms(a)icann.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 5, 2022 08:50 > *To:* ua-comms(a)icann.org > *Subject:* [UA-comms] Update on uasg,tech > > Dear all, > > I was searching for some documents on uasg.tech and mentioned that there > was no update at the sidebar Popular for a long time. The last publication > is dated by 2017. > It would be great to update it! > > Source: > https://uasg.tech/2022/08/make-your-systems-ua-ready-with-the-new-ua-readin… > and on other pages with this sidebar. > > Thank you! > > Maria Kolesnikova > > _______________________________________________ > UA-comms mailing list > UA-comms(a)icann.org > https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms > _______________________________________________ > By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your > personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance > with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and > the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos) You can > visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or > configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or > disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on. _______________________________________________ UA-comms mailing listUA-comms@icann.orghttps://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos) You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on. -- . --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh(a)jdlh.com http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/) multilingual websites consultant 2201-1000 Beach Ave, Vancouver BC V6E 4M2, Canada Canada mobile +1-604-376-8953 _______________________________________________ UA-comms mailing list UA-comms(a)icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-comms _______________________________________________ By submitting your personal data, you consent to the processing of your personal data for purposes of subscribing to this mailing list accordance with the ICANN Privacy Policy (https://www.icann.org/privacy/policy) and the website Terms of Service (https://www.icann.org/privacy/tos) You can visit the Mailman link above to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

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ICANN for Beginners Virtual Program Pilot
by Fahd Batayneh Oct. 7, 2022

Oct. 7, 2022

Friends and Colleagues, In line with one of ICANN’s FY21-25 Strategic Goals to “support and grow active, informed, and effective stakeholder participation,” the ICANN for Beginners Virtual Program expands virtual participation and engagement opportunities for newcomers through introductory content. If you are new to ICANN, the program will provide you with a first-class beginner experience by: Creating a positive impression that affirms how beginners' participation can add value to both their professional development and the global Internet ecosystem (e.g. why engage?); Building an understanding of ICANN; and Fostering participation by helping beginners learn how to participate and engage at ICANN. Participation in the program’s webinars is open to all individuals who are new at ICANN and who wish to learn more about specific topics. These webinars will serve as a complement to ICANN’s other newcomer programs, such as the Fellowship Program and NextGen@ICANN Program. ICANN for Beginners: An Introduction will take place on: 02 Nov 2022 at 2pm UTC To attend the webinar, at this date and time, please register at this link. 03 Nov 2022 at 6am UTC To attend the webinar, at this date and time, please register at this link. More at https://community.icann.org/display/IFBVP/ICANN+for+Beginners+Virtual+Progr…. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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Job Opening - Technical Engagement Specialist, MEA
by Fahd Batayneh Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

Hello, ICANN is looking for a Technical Engagement Specialist to cover the Middle East and Africa (MEA). If interested, please consult https://phe.tbe.taleo.net/phe03/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=ICANN&cw…. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN

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