Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Universal Acceptance Steering Group, or UASG is an administrative group, formed in February 2015, and tasked with undertaking activities that will target Universal Acceptance of all ASCII domain names, ASCII email addresses, IDN domain names, and IDN email.[1]
Members[edit | edit source]
- 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."[1]
- 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."[1]
- Christian Dawson, Vice Chair - works with Internet Infrastructure providers
- "We need to get the global Internet community aware that the world has moved beyond .com and that there will soon be more than a thousand names to choose from."[1]
- 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."[1]