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--></style></head><body lang=en-JO link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://uasg.tech/2024/08/global-internet-community-encouraged-to-submit-event-proposals-for-ua-day-2025/">https://uasg.tech/2024/08/global-internet-community-encouraged-to-submit-event-proposals-for-ua-day-2025/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025). UA Day, held annually, is an opportunity to rally local, national, regional, and global communities and organizations to spread UA awareness and to promote UA adoption with key stakeholders.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>UA is a technical best practice that ensures all valid domain names and email addresses, regardless of script, language or character length, can be equally used by all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems. Co-organized by the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), UA Day 2025 will consist of various virtual and in-person events held by the UASG, ICANN, global partners, and regional and local organizations between 1 March and 30 May 2025.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>UA Day 2025 builds on the success of <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/universal-acceptance-day-report-20jun24-en.pdf">UA Day 2024</a> and the inaugural <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/universal-acceptance-day-01jun23-en.pdf">UA Day in 2023</a>. Together, the 2023 and 2024 events attracted approximately 15,000 participants worldwide across dozens of countries. These milestone events have helped mobilize technical and language communities, companies, governments and Domain Name System (DNS) industry stakeholders to champion UA on a global scale.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Those interested in organizing a UA Day event must complete the <a href="https://forms.gle/xstRr4dWm9L1se5G6">UA Day Event Proposal Form</a> by 11 October 2024. ICANN will provide limited support for proposed UA Day events based on this group’s recommendations.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The following types of events are eligible for support:</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b>UA Awareness:</b> Provide a high-level overview of UA and Email Address Internationalization (EAI), the benefits of being UA-ready, basic technical concepts related to UA and next steps for becoming UA-ready.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b>UA Technical Training:</b> Provide in-depth training on becoming EAI-ready for email system administrators and on becoming UA-ready for software developers.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b>UA Academic Curricula:</b> Work with academic faculty members and experts to integrate Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and UA-related topics into existing technical curricula and design a roadmap.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b>UA Adoption:</b> Conduct a UA adoption exercise and share challenges and solutions to becoming UA-ready, and document your experience. Please note that advance preparatory work and review are required in order to qualify for a UA Adoption event.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b>UA Regional Strategy:</b> Discuss appropriate mechanisms for promoting UA adoption at the local, regional, and national levels.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Proposals will be considered from all relevant organizations, including international, regional and local organizations, technology organizations and companies, open-source communities, standards bodies, email service providers, academia, industry groups, and language communities.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>UA is considered a foundational requirement for the continued expansion of the Internet. Since 2009, the landscape for domain<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>names has changed markedly – in overall number of top-level domain names (TLDs) available, TLD character length and scripts available. However, the checks used by many software applications to validate domain names and email addresses often use rules that do not fully support Universal Acceptance.<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>Achieving UA ensures everybody has the ability to experience the full social and economic power of the Internet using their chosen domain name and email address that best aligns with their interests, business, culture, language, and script.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Questions about UA Day 2025 can be directed to <a href="mailto:UAProgram@icann.org">UAProgram@icann.org</a>. A full UA Day event calendar will be published in due course. In the meantime, interact with the UASG on social media (<a href="https://twitter.com/UASGTech">X</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uasgtech/">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/uasgtech/">LinkedIn</a>) using the hashtag #Internet4All.</p></div></body></html>