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Universal Acceptance Day
Regional conference on IDN and EAI mail universal acceptance
28.03.2023
Idea
Universal Universal Acceptance (UA) is a global movement. The idea of UA arose from the need to make internationalized domain names (IDN) such as .հայ, .中国 (China), .срб (Serbia) or .ලංකා (Lanka) recognizable and universally usable on the internet. The movement seeks to make all valid domain names and email addresses work correctly and equally in all internet-oriented software and raise awareness on further developing of truly multilingual and inclusive internet for all.
Implementation
The Universal Acceptance Governance Group was established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and market leaders Apple, GoDaddy, Google, Microsoft, and Verisign to solve the issue (UASG, uasg.tech).
It assists various stakeholders in getting their systems UA-ready for email and domain name acceptance on a global scale. The UASG has also created training courses and other materials to help developers in the updating of their systems in order to guarantee universal acceptance. UASG organizes UA Local Initiatives and Ambassadors all over the world to work closely with local communities.
UA in Armenia
Armenia has joined the Universal Acceptance movement and is taking the necessary actions to make the Armenian domain (.հայ) and email addresses (e.g. անուն@էլ.փոստ.հայ) accepted worldwide. Armenia is represented by the “Internet Society” NGO, which has been a member of the UASG Local Initiative in CIS and Eastern Europe region since 2020. The working group is creating technological answers for the UA issues.
On March 28, 2023, the first global Universal Acceptance Day (UA Day) will be held.
On Universal Acceptance Day the regional forum for stakeholders in Eastern Europe will be held in Yerevan, Armenia.
During the forum, the outcomes and future possibilities of the work on UA implementation will be discussed.
Under the umbrella of the skills development platform, technical training led by UASG technical professionals will also take place. It will be discussed how local governments and the professional community should work together more successfully to gain widespread acceptability.
The forum will be held in a hybrid format. English and Russian interpretation is available. Registration is required.
Agenda
09:00 - 10:00 | Registration, Welcome coffee
10:00 - 10:35 | Opening ceremony
- Avet Poghosyan – Deputy Minister of the Ministry of High-Tech Industry
- Igor Mkrtumyan – .am/ .հայ Registry, ISOC AM board chair
- Danko Jevtovic – ICANN board
- Dr. Ajay Data – UASG chair
- Andrey Vorobyev – Coordination Center for TLD RU, Director
10:35 - 11:25 |Plenary session: How to increase inclusiveness and multilingualism on the Internet?
- Anna Karakhanyan (moderator) – .am/ .հայ Registry, ISOC AM board member
- Igor Mkrtumyan – .am/ .հայ Registry, ISOC AM board chair
- Andrew Sullivan – ISOC CEO
- Leonid Todorov – APTLD, CEO
- Mikhail Anisimov – ICANN
11:25 - 11:40 | Coffee break
11:40 - 12:40 | Universal Acceptance of IDNs and features of promotion
- Katarina Gevorgyan (moderator) – ISOC AM board member
- Kristina Hakobyan – .am/ .հայ Registry, ISOC AM board member
- Maria Kolesnikova – Coordination Center for TLD RU, Chief Analyst
- Konstantine Karosanidze – Co-Founder Cloud9.GE
- Dejan Đukić – Serbian National Internet Domain Registry Foundation (RNIDS), CEO
- Mikayel Avagyan – Avromic LLC, founder
12:40 - 13:55 | Implementation of IDN and EAI
- Maria Kolesnikova(moderator) – Chair, UA Local Initiative – CIS-EE
- Eduardo Alvarez(online) – ICANN, Director, Technical Services Operations
- Abdalmonem Galila – UASG, Vice Chair
- Aram Verdyan – .am/ .հայ Registry, ISOC AM board member
- Avetik Yessayan -Shirak technology LLC, Founder
- Vadim Mikhailov – Coordination Center for TLD RU, Technical manager at Поддерживаю.РФ project
13:55 - 15:00 | Lunch
15:00 - 16:30 | Technical Training on EAI (part 1)
Email Address Internationalization (EAI) allows non-Latin-based characters in email addresses when sending emails to and from an e-mail server.
The training will include the following topics:
- how to configure email systems to support EAI
- how to design and develop applications and systems to support UA
- how UA issues impact the community,
- how best to address these issues, and highlight business opportunities by being UA-ready
Speaker: Abdalmonem Galila – UASG, Vice Chair
16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break
17:00 - 18:30 | Technical Training on EAI (part 2)
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