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
Tijani BEN JEMAA