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:

Please introduce yourself
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.
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

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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