I really don't get the point of UA Day. Given that the whole UA program is nothing more than a marketing campaign to get more of the Internet (specifically, infrastructure providers and potential registrants) to support 8-bit-character domain names, what's the point in bringing its advocates together to cheerlead to each other? By the way, the description of the session betrays UA's inconvenient little secret: *UA is a technical requirement that ensures all valid domain names and
email addresses, regardless of script, language, or character length, can be equally used by all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems. *
This is wishful thinking. If UA was a *requirement*, you wouldn't need to advocate ıts support. CƖearly there ıs no penaƖty ıncurred to anyone who faiƖs to support ıt; it's not like there's any international treaty or agreement that binds anyone to do what ICANN wants. Behold the downside of being multistakeholder rather than multilateral. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:47 PM Glenn McKnight via NA-Discuss < na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:
UA Day
Friday March 31 2023 12 to 3 EDT
Registration https://bit.ly/NARALO_UADAY
Glenn McKnight, MA Virtual School of Internet Governance Chief Information Officer www.virtualsig.org *YOUR SOURCE FOR INTERNET GOVERNANCE EDUCATION * *Mobile 437-237-4655*
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