About UASG
Universal Acceptance is the concept that all domain names should be treated equally.
Domain names and e-mail addresses should be Accepted, Stored, Processed and Displayed in a consistent and effective manner.
Many systems still assume that domain names (and associated e-mail addresses) are only available in ASCII and that Top Level Domain names are restricted to a well-defined and constant two or three characters. Since the introduction of IDN ccTLDs in 2010 and the most recent wave of new gTLDs in 2013, this is no longer the case.
In February 2015 the community created the Universal Acceptance Steering Group tasked with undertaking activities that will effectively promote the Universal Acceptance of all valid domain names and email addresses. These efforts will at least target Universal Acceptance of all ASCII domain names, ASCII email addresses, IDN domain names, and IDN email.
Administrative Group
Ram Mohan
Ram Mohan is ideally suited to chair this Steering Group. As the CTO of Afilias, one of the first ‘new’ gTLDs in 2001, he’s very familiar with the challenges that new TLDs face when entering the market. Fluent in English and Hindi, Ram is also very familiar with IDNs as Afilias has been providing back end services for the India registry that is launching a dozen IDN ccTLDs to serve India’s diverse language and script community. Ram is also on the Board of ICANN. “Providing diversity and choice are important to the Internet community. While the DNS infrastructure is able to support diversity, it’s now important to make sure that all the software that uses the Internet is able to also support the Diversity”
The group is chaired by Ram Mohan and the vice-chairs are Edmon Chung, Christian Dawson and Rich Merdinger.
Ram Mohan
There are five Project Groups within the UASG:
Topline and Technical Issues
International
Measurement and Monitoring
Community Outreach
Coordination Group
Project Group Leaders
Brent London
Topline and Technical Issues Leader
Brent London is a program manager on the gTLD team at Google. In his role, he focuses on product acceptance of internet identifiers: new gTLDs, internationalized domain names, and internationalized email addresses. His work covers internal projects --ensuring that Google products such as Gmail handle identifiers properly --- as well as external efforts with ICANN. Previously, Brent worked on the product operations team for the Google Domains registrar.
Dusan Stojicevic
International Project Group Co-chair
Dusan Stojicevic is well suited to co-chair Internationalization Project Group. Currently the Chairman of BoG in Serbian National Internet Domain Registry, he was involved in IDN from the very beginning of second Cyrillic domain name in the world, .СРБ. Fluent in English and Serbian, Dusan is now a member of GP Cyrillic of ICANN, and he was a member of various WG in his registry regarding IDN domain from 2010.
Dennis Tan
International Project Group Co-chair
Dennis Tan is a senior product manager for Verisign’s naming services whose focused is advancing the adoption of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Dennis’s recent work includes participation in the Expert Working Group on Internationalized Registration Data at ICANN and collaboration with Eurid in the making of the World Report on Internationalised Domain Names. “We need an end-to-end multilingual Internet that enables access to all users using their own language and script.”
Mark McFadden
Measurement and Monitoring Leader
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