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
—
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 |