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==Members==
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) will be made up of ICANN community members as well as non-ICANN community experts. Each member will be counted on to contribute in some area of expertise needed by this program.<ref name="doc"></ref>
===Secratary General===
* [[Don Hollander]] is the Secretary General of the UASG and has been since its formation in 2015.

===Administrative Group===
* [[Ram Mohan]], Chair - CTO of [[Afilias]]
** "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."<ref name="uasg"></ref>
* [[Edmon Chung]], Vice Chair - [[.asia]]
** "Many of the next Billion Internet users will come from the non-Latin based language communities.  It’s vital that they have equal access to all the services on the Internet."<ref name="uasg"></ref>
* [[Mark Svancarek]], Vice Chair - Principal Program Manager at Microsoft<ref name="uasg"></ref>
* [[Richard Merdinger|Rich Merdinger]], Vice Chair - Vice President of Domains at [[GoDaddy]]
** "It's imperative that all registrants have equal opportunity and this Universal Acceptance initiative is important for choice and diversity on the Internet. GoDaddy is fully behind this initiative."<ref name="uasg"></ref>

===UA Ambassadors===
In January 2018, the UASG Coordination Group created the role of UA Ambassador to raise the issues of UA and EAI within their respective spheres to our target audience of developers and CIOs.<ref>[https://uasg.tech/people/ People of the UASG]</ref>
*[[John Levine]]
*[[Harish Chowdhary]]
*[[Mark William Datysgeld]]
*[[Abdalmonem Galila]]
*[[Ashish Modi]]
*[[Elaine Pruis]]
*[[Dusan Stojicevic]]

===Community Outreach Working Group===
* [[Christian Dawson]], Co-Coordinator, [[Internet Infrastructure Coalition|i2coalition]]
* [[Lars Steffen]], Co-Coordinator, [[ECO|eco – Association of the Internet Industry]]

===EAI Working Group===
* [[Jiankang Yao]], Co-Coordinator, [[CNNIC]]
* [[Mark Svancarek]], Co-Coordinator, [[Microsoft]]