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:
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