[NA-Discuss] UA DAY on March 31st, 20023

[Evan Leibovitch]

I really don't get the point of UA Day.

Given that the whole UA program is nothing more than a marketing campaign
to get more of the Internet (specifically, infrastructure providers and
potential registrants) to support 8-bit-character domain names, what's the
point in bringing its advocates together to cheerlead to each other?

By the way, the description of the session betrays UA's inconvenient little
secret:

*UA is a technical requirement 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.
> *
>

This is wishful thinking. If UA was a *requirement*, you wouldn't need to
advocate ıts support. CƖearly there ıs no penaƖty ıncurred to anyone who
faiƖs to support ıt; it's not like there's any international treaty or
agreement that binds anyone to do what ICANN wants. Behold the downside of
being multistakeholder rather than multilateral.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56



On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:47 PM Glenn McKnight via NA-Discuss <
na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> UA  Day
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