Evan, While it's important for ICANN, and especially the ICANN At-Large community, to be open to many different ideas and opinions from around the world, I believe it's also important for each of us to be aware of our own perspective limitations on any particular lens that we may be using when sharing opinions. You are right. There is an ICANN bubble for many long standing members of the At-Large community who have donated untold hours of volunteer effort towards the ICANN mission. Many in this community have done the hard work to inform themselves of the complexity and nuance about ICANN (policy, org & community) over years, and sometimes decades. However, I feel it's important that as we become more informed about the ICANN mission, we do not give up the realization that most of the End User world is not informed about ICANN's mission. Therefore, the need for education of End Users will always be part of the At-Large community's mission. I think it's important to recognize the need for each of us, no matter how long we've been involved with At-Large, to be open to continuing our own education and building knowledge about the diverse needs of End Users. I hope the opportunity that Glenn has given us with this conversation is to look outside of the ICANN bubble and learn about the importance of First Nations - Inuit scripts & languages in Canada & Québec using the frame of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada <https://nctr.ca/about/history-of-the-trc/truth-and-reconciliation-commission...>. It might be a good idea to consider Glenn's post, outside of the ICANN Bubble, and within the context of the TRC Calls to Action <https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_E...> with respect to Language and Culture (Actions 13-17). I feel it's important for At-Large to consider the Truth & Reconciliation perspective when we do our work. I'm not sure if doing a Google Search is enough to truly understand this frame of mind of a particular End User group within Canada. With Respect, David On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 6:26 AM Evan Leibovitch via NA-Discuss < na-discuss@icann.org> wrote:
This is getting tiring.
One can currently search Google (or other search engines, and even AI chatbots) in all four Unicode-supported UCAS scripts.
Having ongoing conferences where people inside the ICANN bubble meet to convince themselves that they can make the world care about its re-invention of the Unicode wheel remains a massive (and increasingly futile) waste of resources, year after year.
The world has moved on. Please at least make an effort to catch up.
- Evan
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM Glenn McKnight via NA-Discuss < na-discuss@icann.org> wrote:
Mark your calendar on Friday March 17th for Louis presentation
Louis will focus on the main phases that the ICANN Working Group went through to update the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (UCAS) Repertoire and also the languages using the Latin script.
The Repertoire is a reference for First Nations - Inuit scripts & languages in Canada & Québec. It would allow the use of one own language in an address on Internet.
Details
Session Three: Update on Native Canadian Languages Scripts
Speaker: Louis Houle, ISOC Quebec
Time: 12 PM EST
https://tinyurl.com/3haypkjw 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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