Dear All,

Ramadan Greetings,

We start by thanking the penholders Abdalmonem Galila and Zied Bouziri for their dedication in putting the time to prepare the first draft statement about UA & Internationalization of Email addresses using Arabic script.

With accordance to the timeline below the comment period will start from May 16 to 27th.

You can find the same content of the attached draft on the following Google Document link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bAdUEryfG5j1asvTB0DElgaBl9cf79VE1Wt1-BOqHtM/edit?usp=sharing  

We also thank the drafting team members for their input.

Hoping the community comments will enrich the statement with more relevant recommendations.

Best Regards,

Tijani BEN JEMAA & Nadia AlArajME
Space Co-Chairs

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:18 PM Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,

Ramadan Karim,

We start thanking all those who volunteered to be on the drafting team within the timeline.

The drafting team below is listed in accordance of the date received.

Abdalmonem Galila  

Hadia EL Miniawi  

Ahmed Bakhat 

Zied BOUZIRI 

Nabil Benamar

Wafa Dahmani  

Please, keep an eye by May 16 to give your feedback on the first draft.

Best wishes,

Tijani BEN JEMAA & Nadia AlAraj

ME Space Co-Chairs

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:53 PM Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@topnet.tn> wrote:

Dear all,

Following up on our e-mail below, We are glad to announce that we will continue the process and form a drafting team to prepare a statement on the topic of Universal Acceptance & Internationalization of E-mail Addresses using Arabic Script.

The resulting statement will be sent to the ICANN Board and to Universal Acceptance Steering Group.

Please find below the timeline for this process:

 04-08  May        call for volunteers to draft a statement on UA & IEA using Arabic Script

      08  May        Announcement of the drafting team composition

 11-15  May        Drafting of the first draft

      16  May        Publication of the first draft for comments

 16-27  May        Comment period

 28-31  May        Compilation of the comments and preparation of the last draft

      01  June       Publication of the last draft and call for a ME Space teleconference for the

     statement to be discussed, modified (if any), and approved.

      08  June       ME Space teleconference for the statement discussing, modifying (if any), and

    approval

 Note: Eid El Fitr will be by 25 May 2020

Nadira Al Araj & Tijani BEN JEMAA

ME Space Co-Chairs

Le 9 avr. 2020 à 15:57, Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa@topnet.tn> a écrit :

Dear all,

 

As you all know, the ME Space can’t be convened face to face due to the Corona Virus pandemic, and this situation may last for long time.

We thought we can undertake remote activities that may replace our face to face work during this period to achieve our objective which is to make the voice of our region heard for all important issues at ICANN.

Therefore, Nadira and myself, with the strong support of Baher and Fahd, we propose to address the Universal Acceptance under the angle of Arabic script e-mail addresses and prepare a statement to be discussed virtually in a teleconference, modified if necessary, adopted and sent to the ICANN Board and the UASG.

But before that, and to permit to our community members to better understand the UA in general and the Arabic script for e-mail addresses in particular, a webinar will be organized with 3 experts who will present all aspects of the topic.

This whole process will start on 15 April at 10:00 UTC by the webinar. A detailed mail will be sent soon with all information (speakers, zoom, agenda, etc.).

Best

Nadira AL ARAJ & Tijani BEN JEMAA   

ME Space co-chairs