UA Day
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UA Day, or the Universal Acceptance Day,[1] was instituted by the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG),[2] a part of the ICANN community, to highlight the difficulties faced by URLs and email IDs created from some top level domains including International Domain Names (IDNs), that prevent their functionality from being fully compared to legacy URLs and email IDs.
The UA Day brings together multiple stakeholders including technology providers, Governments, language and script communities, civil society organizations, and standards bodies, in order to highlight the issues around UA gaps, and to work collaboratively to address these gaps, thus ensuring that all URLs and email IDs work exactly in the same way.
The UA Day is an important step towards Digital Inclusion, as it enables the journey to a multilingual Internet that provides spaces for linguistic diversity, particularly because the next billion people to join the Internet will non-speakers of English.
UA Day 2023[edit]
In Dec 2022, ICANN and the UASG announced[3] that the first UA Day will be celebrated internationally on 28 March 2023, and will be observed as a recurring annual day. Multiple language and script communities around the world will be supported by ICANN through presentation materials, speakers and funding.
UA Day will be an opportunity to rally local, regional, and global communities and organizations to spread Universal Acceptance (UA) awareness and to encourage UA adoption with key stakeholders. 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. UA is a fundamental requirement for a truly multilingual and digitally inclusive Internet.
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