Hi I am Jothan Frakes, based in Seattle WA USA. I've been a volunteer with the Mozilla Foundation for many years, both contributing time towards upkeep of the Mozilla Public Suffix List ("PSL") ( http://publicsuffix.org) and educating developers on the domain name industry while educating registries new and existing about the PSL, helping bridge the divide between the very large development community and the ICANN community. I am also the co-founder and content producer of the NamesCon.vegas and international DOMAINfest.com conferences, and I participate on the marketing committee and UA technical committee as a member of the Domain Name Association. I'd like to participate in / work on: - Outreach efforts, Education about and advocacy of the existence of new TLDs, IDN ccTLDs, IDN gTLDs, and EIA / UX to Developers - Workshops, Summits, Groups, and conference participation surrounding UA best practices for developers and system integrators - Aiding with development of a test/checklist to help developers, IT, and system integrators can use to identify areas requiring attention for UA - Where possible, including workshops, summits, groups and meetings at the conferences I operate. -Jothan Jothan Frakes Tel: +1.206-355-0230 On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org> wrote:
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