UA Colleagues:

In addition to those of you who are considering what topic to propose for the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, I too am thinking about what I want to propose. I know this conference well, and I propose talks almost every year. I feel strongly that the Program Committee should have interesting proposals about Universal Acceptance, which keep the idea of UA and the news of what has been happening in front of this conference's attendees.

I am considering proposing a talk on the news what has happened in Universal Acceptance in 2019-2020, and a description of what the difficult obstacles are. Obstacles could be technical, or policy, or business issues.

• What would you say are the most interesting and important successes in Universal Acceptance in 2019?
• What successes can we forecast for 2020?  (The conference is in October 2020, and obviously the actual presentation will be adjusted based on what actually happens.)
• What measurable process can we report on Universal Acceptance? e.g.
  
• number of internationalised domain names (IDNs) registered,
  
• traffic to web sites with IDNs,
  
• number of vendors supporting email address internationalisation (EAI),
  
• number of emails being sent from or to internationalised email addresses?
• What are the obstacles that Universal Acceptance faces? What is required to overcome those obstacles?
• What should this conference audience know about UA, which they might not be aware of?  

Is this material already contained in presentations or reports which I could study and repurpose?

Bear in mind that this audience has in-depth knowledge about internationalisation, and Unicode. The audience includes the experts who designed many of the software architectures for internationalisation, IDN, and EAI. They are in favour of internationalisation of all kinds. Thus we don't need content which explains basic UA, or tries to persuade them that UA is desireable — they are persuaded.

Also, if someone else plans to propose a topic like this, please get in touch with me. I do not want to get in your way. And, you may be a better messenger for this material than I am.  (In any case, I have some other proposals apart from a "Report on UA".)

Best regards,
      —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada

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