I’m Mark Svancarek, based in Redmond WA USA, and covering technical issues with customer and partner impact which span the entirety of Microsoft (including IPv6, gTLDs, EAI/IDN). I’d like to work on: * A guideline that IT people can use to determine if their systems are Universal Acceptance (UA) Ready. * Some models for local (national) engagement to advocate UA readiness. Similar models for different industry sectors. * Establishing some good practices with respect to EAI handling * Establishing some good practices with respect to URI/IRI handling * Documentation and tools that developers can use to determine if their apps are Universal Acceptance Ready From: ua-priority-issues-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-priority-issues-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Don Hollander Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 6:37 PM To: ua-international@icann.org; ua-measurement@icann.org; ua-comms@icann.org; ua-priority-issues@icann.org Subject: [UA-priority-issues] 24 March 2015 G’day and welcome to this UA Project Group. (NB: This note will appear in each of the Project Group mailing lists) The purposes of this note are: * To get people to introduce themselves * To share the work that’s already been started * To build a list of ideas that this group would like to work on The time frame is between now and the 31st of March. Below is a list of Stakeholder Groups that were identified during a meeting earlier this year. We broke the list into Doers, Influencers and different Channels for engagement. Clearly some Influencers (like Government) will also be Doers as they have their own IT systems that will have to be made UA Ready. We also identified priorities and whether that groups impact would be High, Medium or Low and whether engagement would be Easy, Medium or Difficult. Top Service Providers (like Facebook, Twitter, and other giant global or regional players), for example, were given a high priority because the Impact would be high even thought the Ability to contact may not be so easy. I’d like to start some discussions and suggest the following: 1. Please introduce yourself 2. Start brainstorming topics that you think should be address by somebody. It would also be useful to identify things that you would like to work on. 3. Review the list and share sectors that you think are missing or if one of the categorisations is materially wrong. I’ll start: I’m Don Hollander, based in New Zealand, and a long history of supporting ICT development in the Asia Pacific Region, most recently as the GM of APTLD. I’m keen for the following to happen sooner than later: * A guideline that IT people can use to determine if their systems are Universal Acceptance (UA) Ready. * A measurement program that we can use to see how much progress UA is making. * A White Paper that cn be used to show the opportunity that being UA ready can provide to an organisation – particularly commercial organisations. * Some models for local (national) engagement to advocate UA readiness. Similar models for different industry sectors. * Establishing some good practices with respect to IDN e-mail handling So, it’s now your turn. I look forward to hearing from you. Don — Notes from meeting in Washington, DC in January 2015 Stakeholder Group Type Priority Impact Ability to Contact Online tutorials Influencer 1 High Easy I* community Influencer 1 High Easy Registries and Registrars - ccTLD space Influencer 1 High Easy Registries and Registrars - gTLD space Influencer 1 High Easy CIO/CTO associations Influencer 2 High Difficult Network/equipment vendors Influencer 2 High Medium Governments Influencer 2 High Medium Protocol/standard development bodies Influencer 3 High Easy Bloggers Influencer 5 High Easy Talk leaders Influencer 5 High Easy Security community Influencer 5 High Easy UNESCO Influencer Low Easy GNSO Influencer Low Easy Other HW vendors Influencer Medium Difficult System integrators (e.g., Accenture) Influencer Medium Difficult Chambers of commerce Influencer Medium Easy GSM association Influencer Medium Easy Domain industry associations Influencer Medium Easy Texbook authors/editorials Influencer Medium Medium Other educators Influencer Medium Medium Industry leaders Influencer Medium Medium Computer societies Influencer Medium Medium ITU Influencer Medium Medium Software library/framework providers Doer 1 High Difficult Top service providers (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, SFDC) Doer 1 High Medium Open source communities Doer 1 High Medium Web hosting industry Doer 2 High Difficult Security Community (secure IDN rollout) Doer 2 High Easy Application developers (including browsers) Doer 3 High Difficult Protocol/standard development bodies (e.g., W3C, IETF) Doer 3 High Easy Registrars Doer 4 High Easy Certificate Authorities Doer Easy Easy DNS hosting industry Doer Low Difficult Reseller (registrar reseller) Doer Low Difficult System integrators (e.g., Accenture) Doer Medium Difficult Rest of service providers Doer Medium Difficult ISPs Doer Medium Difficult ccTLDs Doer Medium Easy gTLDs Doer Medium Easy Media Channel High Difficult Social media Channel High Medium Industry events Channel Low Easy Organize hackathons Channel Medium Medium