Hello Maria, Thank you for your valuable suggestions. Please see below my *response inline* Raymond Mamattah [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-selorm-mamattah-02637610/> [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/selorm.mamattah> [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/RMamattah> Accra, Ghana On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:13 PM Maria Kolesnikova <masha@cctld.ru> wrote:

Dear All, Raymond,

The October Newsletter is quite comprehensive! What is the most important thing, its regularity.

I have some points regarding the draft and some ideas in general:

1. Please, correct the following details in the text:

*During this meeting a session was done on the topic: ccTLDs and advancement of Universal Acceptance - Session 4A. The panel was made up of Dejan Dukic (RNIDS), Maria Kolesnikova and Vadim Mikhailov (CC for TLD .RU/.РФ**), Anil Kumar Jain (UASG), Katarina Gevorgyan (ISOC AM), Hanul Park (KISA) and Sarmad Hussain (ICANN Org). The Session was moderated by Sami Ali (Behrain).*

*Thank you. But as I had mentioned, the corrections are to be done directly on the Google doc. I will add them.*

Additionally: In case the idea about creating a White Paper on Universal Acceptance that was announced during the session by me is taking seriously by UASG and will be realized in future, it could be announced in the newsletter as one of the session results. You could discuss it with Sarmad and Anil for more details. A White Paper is a document that can get together _*all*_ requirements and best practice on New gTLDs, IDNs and EAI support in one place (standards (RFCs), code samples, list of software that supports UA, etc. LGRs for TLD and S2L domains + other related ICANN/IANA policies, tools and practices) so that it can be comprehensive and useful for software developers (but not too long, well focused and with less of water).

*I actually got the report from Anil. In case you have already published the report online we could add the url. We have a limited number of words to include in order not to make the newsletter too long.*

1. I would suggest to add into the newsletter information about upcoming UA events. At least the most important ones. So people can get information about them on time and join to these events. To save time, this block of information can be added into the next newsletter.

*Upcoming events section is posted in the Recent events. We also include it in the section for ICANN updates. The problem is in some cases by the time the newsletter is released the event might have already happened, so it does not qualify as upcoming events. In this case we keep posting them in these two columns.*

1. There can be also added recent news from the UASG website, if any. And ICANN news on Universal Acceptance, IDNs, New gTLDs, if any.

*These news items are fully covered in both the first newsletter and the

current one.*

1. There are sometimes available news from the external resources (e.g. https://domainincite.com/29090-tube-registry-claims-victory-in-linkification... ). But it requires time to search for such news. This is an idea on how you can enrich the newsletter.

*Thank you. I actually include such external materials. For example, in the first release I included an interview Sarmard and the Africa GSE team did in Ghana with a media station and the Association of African Universities.*

* In future publications, it will be nice if we can all look out for the various news items including the external sources. This will be great. Much appreciated.*

1. I would also suggest to develop a separate UASG document based on the following material from the draft newsletter:

* Noted, thanks a lot.*

It can be a document that describes what each stakeholder can do in his role. Recently, we at CIS-EE LI have got a request from a member to prepare the same kind of a document. These information can be really helpful for those who starts communicate with local/regional stakeholders, so to have in hand the full list of concrete proposals/requests on who and what can do for UA achievement. Better with the explanations and examples, if any applicable.

Thank you!

Maria Kolesnikova

*From:* UA-comms <ua-comms-bounces@icann.org> *On Behalf Of *Raymond Mamattah via UA-comms *Sent:* Thursday, October 5, 2023 3:42 PM *To:* UA-comms <ua-comms@icann.org> *Subject:* [UA-comms] UA Newsletter for October 2023 is ready for Comments

Hello Comms WG members,

I have finished working on the version 2 of the UA Newsletter <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZoCdLUdWOPbRwwR6ke-mycvVOW4aAXNw/edit?us...> ready for your comments. The direct link to the draft newsletter is at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZoCdLUdWOPbRwwR6ke-mycvVOW4aAXNw/edit?us...

Please go through and comment on it where necessary. Kindly do your comments directly on the Google doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZoCdLUdWOPbRwwR6ke-mycvVOW4aAXNw/edit?us...>. This is open to comments till tomorrow Friday 6th October 2023 at 23:59 UTC.

Thereafter, it will go to the ICANN Org team for their input before it will be released.

Also attached is a clean PDF version.

*Kindly note that this is a draft work, hence, please do not share.*

Regards,

Raymond Mamattah

Vice Chair, UA Communications WG | Lead for UA Newsletter

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Accra, Ghana